Weaving a ‘weft’ for Anchorage

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Anchorage, Alaska, describes itself “at the center of the periphery,” an apt expression for a city that is so distant from most of the US it is closer to Beijing than Washington DC. Yet with 300,000 residents, the city is the center of economic activity in Alaska and America’s gateway to the arctic.

The city chose to demonstrate a “blueprint for resilience” in a single corridor in the neighborhood of Mountain View—one of the most diverse in a city that is among the most demographically diverse in the nation.….read the full article.