The Sidewalk Weekly: India’s air, NY’s rebound, and llama bombing (Apr 18)



In the first segment [1:39-16:17], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week’s top stories:
– Covid is cleansing India’s air — can it last? (Raghu Karnad, New Yorker) https://bit.ly/34HFrQ1 / China’s real-time pollution data (Eric Jaffe, Sidewalk Talk) https://bit.ly/2KeybBG
– How NYC can rebound from Covid (Dan Doctoroff, New York Times) https://nyti.ms/2RI3KYv / Lessons from Pittsburgh 1918 (Eric Jaffe, Sidewalk Talk) https://bit.ly/34HhyrA
– Bringing industrial use back to neighborhoods (Ray Dubicki, Urbanist) https://bit.ly/2wRy8sw

In the second segment [16:40-22:54], the hosts interview Newsha Ghaeli, co-founder of the epidemiology start-up Biobot about tracking Covid through city wastewater. (Gregory Barber, Wired) https://bit.ly/2VfotVN 

And in the final segment [23:10-25:08], the hosts share what made them smile this week.
– Banksy works from home (Christopher Jobson, Colossal) https://bit.ly/2RNikhz
– GOAT 2 Meeting (Paige Leskin, Business Insider) https://bit.ly/3bk5PSn

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