1 in 4 homeless are veterans
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 estimated number of veterans who were homeless on any given night was 250,000.
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The world’s most expensive shopping streets
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.
The two Cairos
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 modern Egyptian built landscape,” says David Sims, an American housing expert who worked extensively in Egypt. He cites studies which found that the population of the informal areas of Cairo has been growing at more than three times the rate of the formal districts of the city. The city is now ringed by vast areas of informal housing. These are overcrowded forests of unrendered blocks crammed so close together that their balconies almost touch above streets that are too narrow for cars to pass.
Experts estimate that well over half of Cairo’s 16m people live in unplanned districts that have sprouted in breach of laws banning construction on farm land.
Radio ratings racism?
Think of Arbitron as the Nielson ratings people for radio. It used to measure these ratings by having participants record their listening into diaries.
New York is the third PPM city, and Arbitron has said it is still fine-tuning the system. October and November ratings are “pre-currency” books, meaning they won’t be used for ad sales.
Nevertheless, some fear that blacks and Hispanic listeners may be undercounted in the new system.
“These numbers could put us out of business,” said Vinny Brown, program director of WBLS. “And it’s not just us. Listeners need to know this could threaten the future of black and Hispanic radio across the board.”
Car, bus, bicycle: how much space for each?
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: 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 cities in the southeastern United States (I’m not counting Miami).
I have a thing for overanalyses of words per sentence
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.