M. Sophia Newman
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Why Racial Disparities in Asthma Are an Urban Planning Issue
African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites. In Philadelphia and elsewhere, how can outcomes improve with changes to housing quality and pollution control? → Read More
Can Chicago Keep a $6-Billion Development from Displacing a 100-Seat Music Club?
How will the TIF-fueled Lincoln Yards project affect The Hideout, an off-the-grid tavern beloved by locals? Hear from the owners, patrons and artists about the colorful history behind and existential threats facing the storied club. → Read More
Is This the Most Graceful Urban Planning History Lesson Ever?
Chicago's Joffrey Ballet re-worked a winter classic, making connections to a famous episode of Chicago's past that continues to shape its present. → Read More
Can Engaging with Contemporary Social Issues Save the Opera?
Singers, musicians, set designers and builders, writers and producers are seeking new ways to connect opera to modern-day audiences and issues. → Read More
Building On Chicago’s Legacy of Community Development Banking
City loses a historic bank, but the banking ethos it inspired lives on, infused into a digital platform to help more consumers connect with other banks like it. → Read More
What Happens to Street Performers in a Cashless Economy?
Reconciling technological progress with a timeless cultural practice and the need to support artists. → Read More
How climate change shaped the way I think about having children
I don't ask: Do I want to be a mother? I ask: Can I really bring a kid into a world careening toward crisis? → Read More
Redesigning for the Climate, Hospitals First –
Health Care Without Harm founder Gary Cohen is using COP21 to plan for an accelerating agenda of environmentalism in the healthcare sector. → Read More
Can Urbanization Make the World Safer for Girls? –
There’s some evidence that female genital cutting is being abandoned by Kenyan city-dwellers. → Read More
An Innovation to Celebrate on World Toilet Day –
“The number of urban people served by sanitation is growing. We feeling really excited about helping that.” → Read More
The Epidemic That Wasn’t –
Six months after Nepal’s earthquake, recognizing a global health innovation and victory. → Read More
How I came to forgive my rapist
I’m a crisis reporter. A recent visit to a rehab clinic for violent criminals taught me that the way we think about rape is wrong. → Read More
When Peacekeepers Become Disease Spreaders
When United Nations peacekeepers inadvertently started a cholera epidemic in Haiti, victims expected compensation from the world’s foremost human rights arbiter. What does it mean if they can’t get it? → Read More
You Can Kill Anyone with Your Car, As Long As You Don't Really Mean It
Nationwide, fatal bike accidents involving cars often result in misdemeanor charges, tickets, or nothing. Leah Shahum from the San Francisco Bike Coalition told the New York Times last year tha… → Read More
There Are Still Broken Bones Buried Under Bangladesh's Collapsed Sweat Shop
A year after the disaster, the grim history of Rana Plaza has delayed redevelopment and almost nothing has been added to the site. Curiously, almost nothing has been taken away, either. → Read More
There Are Still Broken Bones Buried Under Bangladesh's Collapsed Sweat Shop
A year since the Rana Plaza disaster, not every dead body has been retrieved. → Read More
Bangladesh Is Locked in Dumb and Violent Torpor
The country's bloodiest election ever was an exercise in depressing idiocy. The ruling party won, but it wasn't much of a victory since the main opposition party boycotted the election, branding it a → Read More