Statistics
One in four homeless are veterans.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit, based the findings of its report on numbers from Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau. 2005 data estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans.
In comparison, the VA says that 20 years ago, the [...]
The interesting thing about the world’s most expensive shopping streets is that no country on the list has more than one street represented. It makes sense, though, for all the most expensive shops in a given country to agglomerate along one strip of asphalt or cobblestone.
In a pattern that is repeated in megacities–and not so megacities–everywhere, Cairo’s rich are opting “for the private gated enclaves, while the poor live in illegally built suburbs reclaimed from the surrounding countryside.”
What are the growth patterns within the city?
“It is only a slight exaggeration to say that informality is the defining characteristic of the [...]
Think of Arbitron as the Nielson ratings people for radio. It used to measure these ratings by having participants record their listening into diaries.
As of October, it switched to the “personal people meter” (PPM), with participants carrying an electronic recording device.
New York is the third PPM city, and Arbitron has said it is still [...]
This series of photographs illustrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of people via car, bus, and bicycle.
Photograph: Münster, Germany, Press Office
Forbes: America’s most sedentary cities.
Forbes added together three scores for each city. These scores measured body mass index, physical inactivity, and television viewing. They derived the first two scores from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the television viewing score came from Nielsen data.
Memphis came in first and five of the top ten are [...]
Steven Berlin Johnson scatter charts his words-per-sentence and word complexity, comparing himself to his literary peers and heroes; he draws some interesting conclusions.
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