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4 stories picked for you · 22 minutes to read · 14 to listen
The Meridian · 9 min
How coastal cities are rewriting the rules of the shoreline
From Rotterdam to Ho Chi Minh City, engineers, mayors, and residents are trading concrete seawalls for something stranger — and possibly smarter.
The Meridian · 7 min
Algorithms in the courtroom: who audits the judge?
Risk-assessment software now shapes bail, sentencing, and parole decisions in 46 US states. Almost no one can inspect it.
Atlas Quarterly · 12 min
The return of the slow city
A decade after 'smart' became the default civic adjective, a quieter movement is winning back streets, squares, and evenings.
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