by Bennat Berger | Sep 9, 2017 | Culture, Current Events, Urban Planning
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines a food desert as a part of the country where it’s difficult to buy fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthy whole foods. An area is considered a food desert if 500 people or more, or 33% of the population in the area...
by Bennat Berger | Sep 6, 2017 | Culture, Current Events
All cities have a life of their own. Buildings are the bones, streets and rivers and sidewalks the veins and arteries, weather changes, wind blows, papers fly–the breath. But the soul is the people who live in the city, and perhaps nowhere more so than in New...
by Bennat Berger | Jul 18, 2017 | Culture, Current Events, Urban Planning
Whether you consider it “a powerful beacon” or “incredibly stupid,” “corporate feminism” or “revolutionary art,” Kirsten Visbal’s “Fearless Girl” statue has been impossible to ignore since it popped up overnight this past March. Placed in a defiant stance before the...
by Bennat Berger | Jun 22, 2017 | Culture, Current Events, Urban Planning
More than 20 Years After the “Bigger is Better” Building Trend Began, are These Odd Monuments to Excess on their Way Out? It began—like parachute pants, shoulder pads and “supersized” fast food meals—in the 1980s and became full-blown in the early 90s: McMansions....
by Bennat Berger | Jun 18, 2017 | Current Events
We are all aboard for a new and potentially challenging journey for America and the planet. With Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, it seems like all that can be agreed upon is that things are going to be very different for the next four years....
by Bennat Berger | May 1, 2017 | Culture, Current Events, Technology, Urban Planning
There’s a reason young people love Minecraft. Called a “sandbox” video game, Minecraft is a blank slate that enables players to build brand new worlds using only building blocks and the contents of their imagination, then take on three-dimensional adventures from...
