Nathan Burkhart
@nathanburkhart.bsky.social
on the border by the sea
Reposted by Nathan Burkhart
Featured story: Suburbanization disperses people and jobs so that capital doesn’t need the city to organize itself anymore; instead, the city needs capital to keep from falling apart.
Why Houston’s Urbanist Movement Is Doomed
The unexpected fate of Houston's Northside holds lessons that the city’s boosters may not wish to hear.
www.texasobserver.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Featured story: Suburbanization disperses people and jobs so that capital doesn’t need the city to organize itself anymore; instead, the city needs capital to keep from falling apart.
Reposted by Nathan Burkhart
Sidewalk School, a humanitarian nonprofit offers classes several days a week to migrant children in Reynosa and nearby Matamoros, sister city to Brownsville. The kids aren’t enrolled in local public schools, so the nonprofit teaches them reading, math, and art.
She Fled Mexico as a Child. Now, She Teaches Migrant Kids in Tamaulipas.
“When I see a mom with her child trying to cross, it's like I see myself in her.”
www.texasobserver.org
November 19, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Sidewalk School, a humanitarian nonprofit offers classes several days a week to migrant children in Reynosa and nearby Matamoros, sister city to Brownsville. The kids aren’t enrolled in local public schools, so the nonprofit teaches them reading, math, and art.