”the places that look most like America are large metros; that look least like America have fewer than 100k people”
What is “Normal America”?
city
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”Big-time conservative media isn’t made in those places — Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin — even if it’s marketed to them.”
”Turn Parking Into A Park?”
Yes, please.
(Granted, this commercial space becoming a public park is unrealistic. But a well-designed shared commercial/green space would be much better than the current suburb-style parking.)
”Oh Dad! Look, I see the star!”
City life.
”In a megacity world, countries can be suburbs of cities”
Best quote from papers I’m grading
Grading papers on urban church. Best quote so far:
I do not understand the city.
Ironically demonstrates better understanding than many.
“Hyperloop envisioned in 1897”
Chicago Trib article has 120 years or so on Elon Musk. (See left column: “Transit furnished by pneumatic tubes.”)
“The Midwest’s urban/rural divide and the myth of America’s heartland”
State and Congress
“Foreign investment per state in Nigeria.”
“How Studio Gang is working to transform the police station into the polis station”
Sunset Lekki-Ikoyi
”A staggering moment for Chicago”
And for people everywhere. It stirs me up to pray things like the psalmist frequently prayed in the face of inexplicable cruelty.
”Since 2009… 140,000 more Mexican migrants left the United States than arrived”
I love these kinds of counter-popular-media-narrative statistics.