Density and social interaction
Late last year, a widely-reported study (PDF) called "Social Interaction and Urban Sprawl" emerged from the University of California at Irvine’s economics department regarding the impact of sprawl vs. density on social interactions. The department...Knowledge corridor blues
The latest issue of CommonWealth magazine includes an article by staff writer Gabrielle Gurley questioning whether Bradley International Airport’s new connection to Amsterdam is going to make much of a difference for the western Massachusetts economy. Starting...From the We Told You So Department
Today brings a small victory for those of us who’ve maintained that there was more than ample fishiness in the results of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio. Robert Kennedy, Jr., in a Rolling Stone article, did a very fine job of laying out the many...I Am Adman, Hear Me, Boar!
I don’t know where I’ve been for the past eight months or so, but I somehow only saw Burger King’s “Manthem” commercial for the first time the other day. In case you’re the other person who hasn’t seen it, it goes like this:...E-Edition
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