Welcome to the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute
We are a nonpartisan, applied research and community outreach institute at UNC Charlotte, seeking solutions to the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our communities.
You can see ozone’s effects in your own garden
In an ozone garden, the plants can tell an astute observer whether ozone pollution is a problem.
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Photo gallery: Images along Blue Line tell city’s unheralded stories
The landscape along Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line light rail offers reminders of Charlotte’s once-agricultural past, its long and continuing industrial history, and its booming future. Come along on a photo journey.
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