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London had a problem. In 2016, more than 2 million of the city’s residents—roughly a quarter of its population—lived in areas with illegal levels of air pollution; areas that also contained nearly 500 of the city’s schools. That same air pollution was prematurely killing as many as 36,000 people a year. Much of it was coming from transport: a quarter of the city’s carbon emissions were from moving people and goods, with three-quarters of that emitted by road traffic.But in the years since, carbon emissions have fallen.…

Until now it has been impossible to peer into the human mind, but new biometric and machine learning tools are changing this. We can now understand how people experience cities, and these insights can provide a roadmap for creating more just, sustainable and healthy places.  Assuming people approve of these technologies surveilling them, researchers like us can collect real-time facial analysis and eye-movement data using webcams. We can then discern subconscious information communicated by people’s faces when they are…

Welcome back to L.A. Goes Out. I don’t know about you, but I’m stuffed after taking part in so many friendsgivings. I definitely had too much food, but I could never have too much art. Here are the top picks for art-going and other SoCal events this upcoming weekend:Weekly countdown Victor Estrada’s “Honey Bunny,” left, and “Fear” in the ArtCenter exhibition “Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican.”(Juan Posada / ArtCenter College of Design) 1. “Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican”This Los Angeles-born artist returns…

Cities around the world are proposing to replace the space taken up by parked cars with usable areas for people.Personal cars sit parked about 95% of the time, according to a study by the RAC Foundation. And they take up valuable real estate in urban areas. Roads and parking occupy nearly a quarter of Manhattan, for example, while only 22% of households in the borough owns a car, according to census data. Cars were banned on a stretch of Broadway by Times Square in 2009. While initially controversial, this change quickly…