Urban Studies
24 Threads
I love walkable cities, but when I dug into the data, I found that they're not really associated with lower levels of social isolation. https://t.co/15frGR77Jv https://t.co/MVYa...
It's quite striking how high rent renders life miserable for 北漂 (bei piao) youth in both Beijing and Taibei (Taipei). https://t.co/njbyBJ6VNY
One way to think of our developmental & sustainability challenges is to consider India as ~30,000 clusters of ~20 villages each. Clusters are like organizations, & today aren't sel...
Why did the USA do this to its cities? https://t.co/Irj7aXRLtJ
Last night I went to a bar in downtown San Francisco. It looked like a dystopia. I saw hundreds of people folded over (likely high on Fentanyl), or sitting on the sidewalks smok...
Thread. @DalitChef writes: In “Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chashma,” Gukul Dham Society is a perfect reflection of Brahmin India. -Gada -Mehta -Sodhi -Bhide -Hathi -Pande -Iyer All are S...
#Surveillance #India cameras per 1,000 inhabitants, top 10 cities 🇨🇳Beijing: 372.80 🇮🇳Indore: 62.52 🇮🇳Hyderabad: 41.80 🇮🇳Delhi: 26.70 🇮🇳Chennai: 24.53 🇬🇧London: 13.35 🇹🇭Bangkok: 7...
the thing about the gentrification of these cities is that it affects everyone, not just the poor people who are pushed out. cosmopolitan cities w/ diverse populations are fount fo...
So this is actually a neat question that gets at a continuing debate about the origin of cities (and from there, states): what were cities for? There tend to be three answers to t...
"The first two times I went to Chicago, all I could think about was, 'why doesn’t everyone move here?' Then I went in February and I found out." - @mattyglesias with a skeptical ta...
Population density thread because you and I both know you have nothing better to do. Let's start with this cool way to visualize population density, by @undertheraedar. The height...
Okay so can we talk about these tier rankings? First, I've never liked the re-branding of "2nd Tier" into "New 1st Tier". Descriptively speaking, they ARE 2nd tier compared to SH,...
The more I read these panicked articles about places like NYC and San Francisco being 'unsafe', the more I realize it's not about crime at all - just discomfort with poverty being...
On NYC's ascendance in US Circa 1820 NYC was merely "first among equals" Population: 124K Philadelphia 64K, Baltimore 63K, Boston 43K Big divergence was b/w 1820 & 1840 1830 - NY...
Subalternization of public spaces (A thread)🧵 During early 2000s in Patna, as a kid used to go out for morning walks in parks. There educated and classy Sikh, Bengali, Sinha uncle...
An unremarked but ultimately highly consequential political dynamic of the 2010s was the browning of the suburbs that was coincident with urban gentrification &a rededication of th...
The subject of "White Flight" seemed to be trending recently, reminding me of the story of the Diver family, as detailed in the Pulitzer Prize winning “Common Ground” – One of the...
New York has opened my eyes up alot. Alot. As much as I love the buzz and vibe of New York us Londoners don't know how good we have it here. I'm actually in shock by alot of thin...
So I've been asked what my advice would be to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv. Someone with no military training but wanting to resist. Here are a few things #Kyiv #...
A thread on Antony Waste Handling Cell Limited (Managing Waste. Delivering Growth) #AWHCL #antonywaste
This is what downtown San Francisco looks like right now. (🧵1/x) https://t.co/V1nrHs7Iqf
I thought I'd write a thread today on the history of policing children on the streets of Chicago, the subject of my PhD. Let's start in the late nineteenth century
MINI LECTURE: Street appropriation [1/13] Cars have taken over our public space. That APPROPRIATION happens in stealth. Government responses to it seem a-political and technocrati...
This is the City literally putting up 25+ boulders to keep homeless people out of public space. This is Clinton Park in the Mission. Thousands of dollars spent on #HostileArch...
