CityLab Weekly

How to Design a City For the Blind and Visually Impaired

Also today: The economic toll of inner-city highways, and how to fireproof a whole neighborhood.
For many visually impaired and blind people, getting around means learning the tactile cues of the urban streetscape.Photographer: Gabe Souza/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

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This week, as conflict spreads across the Middle East following US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, our colleagues in Los Angeles checked in with the Iranian-American community in “Tehrangeles” on the city’s Westside. Some locals expressed hope for a regime change; others were wary of a prolonged civil war in their motherland and critical of President Donald Trump. “The Iranian-American community is like a sample of the American people,” said one neighborhood restauranteur. “They are divided.”