…on the left feel a persistent anxiety about the danger of large-scale right-wing political violence.  Much of the right-wing population is heavily armed (though lately many urban liberals have been buying…

…to my attention here, though in reality it should have been obvious that this would happen.  Over the last few years gun ownership among urban liberals has risen sharply, driven…

…Chicago, urban renewal was the thought to be the right idea and the wrong concept. Public housing development in Chicago, Illinois. Cabrini-Green was a model of successful public housing. Poor planning, physical deterioration,…

…in greenbacks. These were backed only by the government’s promise to pay. While farmers and some entrepreneurs thrived during the war, urban workers and miners had reason to believe that…

…its engineers and executives knew that it had little value for urban buyers.” As many carmakers would come to realize, that was a savvy approach when selling SUVs, motor vehicles…

…the other is referred to as the worst case of urban decay in US history (Warda, 2016). The cities have comparable origins, and both attribute their wealth to specialisation, so…

…don’t always load. Rural residents like Williams paid nearly $13 more a month on average in late 2020 for slow internet connections than those in urban areas, according to Brian Whitacre, an…

…item in this basket is given a weight that reflects how much the average urban household spends on it. Items with higher weights, like shelter, tend to have a larger…

…in these expensive areas. As a practical matter, that means service providers pass the cost of this tax onto their urban and suburban customers. People in cities wind up subsidizing…

…lowest location-based fees, simply called “delivery area surcharges,” apply to another 19 percent of ZIP codes, mostly in suburban areas and small towns, with a combined population of 19 million….