Buffalo is the dreariest city in America, followed by Seattle and Pittsburgh. (Lexington is also up there. 😭) https://t.co/Pq7MIhFIH0
Buffalo is the dreariest city in America, followed by Seattle and Pittsburgh. (Lexington is also up there. 😭) https://t.co/Pq7MIhFIH0
- Convenience stores and drugstores 7. Pharmaceuticals and vitamins 8. Downtown townhomes/condos 9. Active exurban retirement communities 10. Recreational vehicles (RVs)
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
The really bad news is abroad. Each year Gallup surveys roughly 150,000 people in over 140 countries about their emotional lives. Experiences of negative emotions — related to stress, sadness, anger, worry and physical pain — hit a record high last year.
New York Times • Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
American cities became much healthier in the early twentieth century because they were spending as much on water as the federal government spent on everything except the military and the postal service.
Edward Glaeser • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Smaller cities, especially in parts of the upper Midwest (e.g., Wisconsin) but also in other states, show the lowest neighborhood segregation by income.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
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.
The new American cities trade in information, entertainment, tourism, software, finance. They are abstract.
Rebecca Solnit • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
About the same rate persisted in the 2000s and Washington experienced a record heat wave in 2012. In his paper, Hansen had also made these predictions for three other cities: Omaha, Memphis, and New York. These results were more mixed and go to illustrate the regional variability of the climate. Just 1 out of 10 summers in Omaha in the 1990s qualif
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