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  • The 'Most Hopeful' New Housing in Turkey

    February 23, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Düzce

    After an earthquake devastated the town of Düzce, Turkey, residents banded together to create a housing cooperative and later Düzce Hope Studio, a group of pro-bono architects and engineers working to help rebuild the town. What makes the building team unique is that the design process included and valued residents’ voices. Yaşar Adanah, an urban researcher, states, “What’s happening in Düzce is a rare example of a holistic approach to housing that can be a model for other neighborhoods.”

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  • As Fire Risk Explodes Across the West, an Oregon City Finds a Solution

    February 20, 2018 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Oregon

    To mitigate against the threat of devastating wildfires and destruction of water supply, Ashland, Oregon has been thinning their previously overgrown forests for years through controlled burns and logging efforts. While these effort have not always been easy, and took a great deal of community buy-in, they appear to be providing a solution to saving their one and only water supply from destruction.

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  • A Western town says ‘no' to guns in schools

    February 20, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Mancos, Colorado

    In Mancos, Colorado, the school board voted “no” to arming school staff in the traditionally Western town. Across the United States, the question of arming teachers is being brought up as a response to the increase in school shootings. The policy is highly contested, with some saying it provides students with a feeling of safety, but others saying the risks associated are too high. For the Mancos community, such a vote is a surprise given the town’s gun-friendly history, but is explained by the increase in new residents.

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  • At crossroads of policing and murder, a long push for accountability

    February 15, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Criticism and protests led by community activists in NY led to wide scale changes in NYPD’s policing, it resulted in a large decrease at the unequal way the NYPD racially profiled black and latino men. Many of this activism was led by the mothers of young black men killed at the hands of NYPD. In Baltimore, mothers are also coalescing around the same issue, but they’re taking a different approach.

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  • Süddeutsche Zeitung is improving the way media reports on political polls

    February 13, 2018 |

    Global Editors Network (GEN) Editors Lab |

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    Response Location: Germany

    In 2017, German newsroom Suddeutsche Zeitung began reporting election polling numbers in such a way that the uncertainty of the poll—caused by a limited sample size or respondents lying to pollsters—was visualized in the reporting. Through this method, information is conveyed to readers but in such a way that doesn’t erase uncertainty and doubt about the results.

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  • Safe, happy and free: does Finland have all the answers?

    February 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Finland

    In the past 150 years, Finland has gone from famine-ridden to renowned as one of the world’s strongest democracies with leading global rankings in health, education, and innovation. Culture is key to this transformation. Finns are both self-reliant and highly cooperative with a long history of putting independence, freedom, and opportunity for all people front and center in policymaking.

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  • In 2011 Preston hit rock bottom. Then it took back control

    January 31, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Preston

    In 2011, when a huge plan for a sprawling shopping mall halted after the financial crisis, Preston’s future looked bleak. That is, until Matthew Brown, a local government leader, decided to spend money locally, an idea that drastically reshaped the city’s economy. The city council “ adopted a guerrilla localism,” and it paid off. By changing procurement practices and business methods, Preston has become a model for how to turn around a failing city.

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  • Before #MeToo, women janitors organized to fight workplace harassment

    January 29, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After watching a documentary film about women janitors getting assaulted during the night shift, janitors began to organize around a campaign called “Ya Basta — “Enough is Enough.” They began to protest for legislation that would protect them. A bill that would require supervisors to undergo sexual harassment training was sent to the floor, and janitors participated in a five day hunger strike calling for the governor to sign it. "Not just one or two, but thousands are behind me, speaking up. Maybe our world as immigrant women will change.”

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  • Thousands of poor young people are using Minecraft to redesign their cities

    January 29, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    Too often, poor community members are not included in public discourse over how public spaces should look-- rather, the urban planning is more top-down. To change that, the UN’s Block by Block project is using the computer game Minecraft to include locals in shaping the physical spaces in their own communities by teaching them digital design skills. The UN program has engaged over 17,000 people, and 20 crowdsourced designs have already been built in cities around the world.

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  • Coaches in the classroom: How Colorado preschools are upping their teaching game

    January 26, 2018 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    For the past decade, Colorado's preschools have used external coaches to improve quality of instruction in early childcare education classrooms. To address the high cost of this one-on-one approach, the Denver Preschool Program has launched a program to allow teachers to earn credentials to mentor their own colleagues.

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