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Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes absurd, but hopefully useful.
The wealthy are leaving cities? Good riddance: There are a number of times in America’s past when high income earners left the big city for the outskirts in search of more space. But the potential for their permanent evacuation leaves questions about why city budgets and resources depend so heavily on them when sustainability should be the ultima
The pandemic marks a shift in how we see our homes and relate to the outside world. Panic over wealthy people leaving cities misses the point: cities shouldn’t revolve around them in the first place. Our love of same-day shipping is clogging up traffic and hurting the environment.
The home as a fortress: Our homes have transitioned from just a place to sleep at the end of the day to a full time fortress against all perils; germs, fires, flooding, heat and more. And in the future with more intelligent features and design, our homes will also become more personalized to our individual needs, but perhaps a bit more antisocial and unequal as well. (Max Holleran | The New Republic)