EPISODE · Jan 16, 2018 · 5 MIN
The Astrophysicist Who Wants to Help Solve Baltimore's Urban Blight
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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