Buffalo is the dreariest city in America, followed by Seattle and Pittsburgh. (Lexington is also up there. ðŸ˜) https://t.co/Pq7MIhFIH0
Buffalo is the dreariest city in America, followed by Seattle and Pittsburgh. (Lexington is also up there. ðŸ˜) https://t.co/Pq7MIhFIH0
it’s easier to list small towns in American art that serve as sites for the examination of pathology, hypocrisy, or the ways a soul is stifled, than towns that serve simply as neutral settings.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
There is a point where the rainfall declines dramatically. That’s a line that runs from Minnesota to central Texas. It is the 100th meridian and starkly divides the continent.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Department of Energy data confirms that New York State’s per capita energy consumption is next to last in the country, which largely reflects public transit use in New York City.
Edward Glaeser • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Today I learned that the East side of most American cities is poorer than the West side because of the Industrial Revolution.
Factories produced pollution, and winds in the US tend to move West to East. Wealthy people, wanting to avoid pollution carried by the wind, stayed West.
What's the "essential" non-fiction book about your city?