Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Wednesday, 31 July 2019

So you want to be a NIMBY? Cough up then...

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So you want to protect that precious view? Right now what NIMBYs do is put pressure on politicians to stop developers building in that v...
Monday, 9 April 2018

Crime and gentrification...

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We were all utterly shocked to discover that, for the first part of 2018, the rate of murder in London was worst than that once Capital of...
Monday, 31 July 2017

Is this the new suburbia? And should we worry?

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From City Lab comes an article about Urby who build high density apartments in New York suburbs (Staten Island, Jersey City, Stamford): ...
Thursday, 27 October 2016

Rents and the death of the high street

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Aaron Renn reports on the arrival of a mustard shop in New York's Upper West Side: Maille is a supermarket brand of dijon mustard. It’...
Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Why London dominates (or how the London problem isn't really a London problem)

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Aaron Renn picks up on how tech superstar, Peter Thiel sort of accidently exposed the truth about Chicago (in Chicago): “If you are a very ...
Monday, 12 September 2016

Diversity and the metropolitan diaspora

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OK we have to accept a more-or-less economic definition of successful here (which I'm guessing will be fine for most folk) but the evide...
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Saturday, 20 December 2014

The curse of bureaucracy...

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**** And a reminder that large parts of the USA are far removed from being that traditional descriptor, "land of the free". This...
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Saturday, 6 December 2014

Does 'Gangs of New York' shed some light on Bradford politics?

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**** You remember the film 'Gangs of New York'? What I hadn't fully appreciated was that the film wasn't just about the ba...
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See folks...repression and prohibition don't work...

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**** From an article about scrounging fags in New York : Although smokers are an ostracized lot, New York smoking rates are, it turns ...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Building the future - from mushrooms!

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The future of building is revealed - and it involves mushrooms: Typically “fungus” and “building” are not words people like to hear toge...
Sunday, 2 March 2014

Rent-seeking at work...

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**** From New York: This week, New York held an auction for individual yellow-cab medallions, the rare and wonderful permits that give...
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Thursday, 19 December 2013

Passive vaping and New York's health fascism

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I wrote about some emerging research showing no link between passive smoking and lung cancer: The article describes a large prospectiv...
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Sunday, 13 October 2013

Exploring what might make Bradford's schools better...

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**** Bradford's schools aren't very good. And haven't got noticeably better - at least in terms of outcomes - over the past de...
Thursday, 3 January 2013

"Get this killer off New York's streets"

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**** Or so says that jumped up little fascist Mike Bloomberg. And the killer in question? Ben & Jerry's! "Heart disease is t...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Mike Bloomberg is more of a Bonapartist than a liberal - even an American liberal

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**** Alan Massie in the Spectator - while explaining that Mike Bloomberg is a "liberal" (or at least not a Republican or a cons...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

You couldn't make it up! More from Bloomberg's health fascism

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**** Apparently Bloomberg's Nanny State (formerly known as New York City) is banning food donations: "In conjunction with a ma...
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011

It seems protesting is bad for your health - and must be banned

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**** The Mayor of New York has form. He is a high priest of the Church of Public Health, a fan of the ban, an obsessor about health risks....
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Sunday, 11 September 2011

Hurricane coming? OK guys, let's get drunk!

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**** Maybe New Yorkers knew the hurricane was to be something of a damp squib. Perhaps we're getting a glimpse of how people will resp...