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A four page comic about drawing, drawn for the Portland Public Library's newest exhibit, "Why We Make Comics: Reflections on Storytelling".

If you live in Portland ME, you can see this comic, as well as three others drawn by Isabella Rotman, Caroline Hu, and Liz Prince, on display from October 6th to December 31 at the library!

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The decision of what cities value now has implications for what—and who—they will value in the future. Atlanta’s South River Forest, which regulates temperatures and provides residents with a critical source of climate resiliency, is an asset that benefits majority-Black neighborhoods in one of the most heat-stressed cities in the country. Destroying 85 acres of it despite public opposition is a choice with long-term consequences.

Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ and the relationship between place, policing, and climate | Brookings.edu

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The northwest corner of the intersection of Pryor Street and Wall Street, Downtown Atlanta. Left: 1951. Right: today.

The brick building in the old photo is the grand Kimball House hotel. The current building is mostly a parking deck, built in the 1970s. It's much less inviting to walk past the concrete walls of a parking structure than it is to walk past spaces that are used for people-activities, with windows and doors on the sidewalk.

The design of buildings and the use of them -- particularly at street level -- affects the way we feel about walking and interacting with the city outside of a car.

And if you're like me, you have to wonder how city leaders felt about Downtown and about urban life in general when they allowed so many grand buildings to be replaced with dead spaces. How has our attitude about land-use in Downtown changed over the decades?