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Signal 1: Trash Crisis in the United States of America

The United States of America is one of the largest producers of waste in the world. The US is undergoing a crisis of recycling waste since the Republic of China has banned the imports of mixed paper, metals, and 26 other solid waste to reduce their carbon footprint via…

Signal 1: Low public transportation ridership in Los Angeles

According to LA Metro, the average rail and bus ridership on the weekday is about 1.2 million whereas the City of Los Angeles has a population of almost 4 million. On the other hand, NYC with a population of 8.5 million has…

NYC Transit System Needs Update

As urban areas have developed and expanded, more and more people have moved into cities, sharing limited resources. According to MTA statistics, NYC subway has increased over 100 million ridership over past 5 years, hitting 1 billion ridership in 2017. As a result, the…

Hamsterdam 2.0: Safe injections sites in cities can mitigate the social costs of the opioid crisis

Signal 1: Fast Fashion or Fast Waste

Whenever we step in Soho, we see a bunch of people who dressed in the latest fashion style especially in the beginning of September during which is the New York Fashion Week. However, along with the high cognition of the high fashion industry, the destructive…

Signal 1: Drones promote the development of smart cities

In recent years, drone technology has developed rapidly and is used in various industries. In urban planning: drones can quickly build 3D models of cities through short-time automated scanning. Among the transportation systems…

Signal 1: Cost-free Kinetic Energy

Non-renewable energy sources like coal and petroleum are slowly but surely getting depleted and…

Signal #1 — “Make ‘Fairness by Design’ Part of Machine Learning”

The Neglected Favelas

The Favelas, located on the hills of Rio de Janeiro, often received dysfunctional portrayal that overlooked a dilemma to this urban phenomenon.

Rio’s favelas are large informal housing that sprawled from poor communities, which are not governed by any public…