New Orleans is still teetering two decades after Katrina, Tokyo uses AI to simulate a Mount Fuji eruption, and more.
- Gold cherubs and gilded moldings have taken over the Oval Office in Trump’s latest White House makeover, but TikTok sleuths speculate that the 24-karat glam may actually be spray painted millwork from Home Depot. (Yahoo)
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Twenty years after Katrina, New Orleans hasn’t had the makeover it thought was coming. Crumbling streets, soaring costs, and a checked-out City Hall have residents wondering if mere survival is their fate. (The New York Times)
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Chicago just joined a nationwide movement to ditch car-first mandates in favor of adding housing stock. The city axed parking minimums near transit, a decision some are calling a “surgical” fix in a city long gridlocked by zoning red tape. (Bloomberg)
Car parking at Marina City towers in Chicago on October 16, 2022.
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Mount Fuji hasn’t erupted in over 300 years, but Tokyo just simulated the worst-case scenario with AI-generated footage that blankets the city in ash, cripples transit, and predicts long term health effects—part of a push to jolt its residents into preparing for the worst now. (AP News)
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After years of delays, Amtrak’s new NextGen Acela trains are finally zipping along the Northeast Corridor at 160 mph speeds, linking riders to Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston. (Bloomberg)
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