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Regarding our discussion of demographic transition and declining fertility, here’s a relevant segment from Newshour at PBS: “In Italy, Rising Anxiety Over Falling Birth Rates.”

Take a look at this video showing the truly expansive dimensions of some of the world’s biggest cities.

In this South Park clip, the writers lampoon gentrification.

Here’s an interesting little item in The New Republic addressing some of the downsides of VRBOs we were discussing in class the other day.

Check out KUT’s project “On My Block: Voices from 12th & Chicon.”

Check out this Texas Monthly piece that includes a description of, and photos from, photographer John Langmore’s book about daily life in East Austin before gentrification.

Here’s an in-depth look at the week’s topic from a recent article in the Texas Observer. Check it out: “Cities have spent three decades criminalizing homelessness. Last year, Austin bucked the trend—and sparked a firestorm that still hasn’t gone out.”

Check out Zain Khalid’s scathing, hilarious characterization of the pretentious downside of gentrification, written like biblical prophecy: “The Four Horsemen of Gentrification.”

We were talking in class about the recent surge in attempts to break the unsanctioned coast-to-coast driving time record. Here’s a story in GQ about that very thing: “The IIncredible Story of the Great Cannonball Boom.”