The Astrophysicist Who Wants to Help Solve Baltimore's Urban Blight
The Astrophysicist Who Wants to Help Solve Baltimore's Urban Blight
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January 16, 20185m 27s
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Show Notes
Vacant buildings have their own sort of gravitational pull. When a home gets boarded up on one block, you can almost bet another will follow nearby. Often, they pull whole neighborhoods into their orbit, driving down the local housing market in ever-expanding clusters. Which at least begins to explain why Baltimore has tapped Tamás Budavári, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, to study their patterns.
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