The Goodspeed Update

In Washington, D.C. the lowest level of elected government are the city’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. Created in the 1970s, they were designed to connect the city’s neighborhoods to city government. These bodies are notorious for their NIMBY tendances and colorful personalities. I’ve long wondered why it seemed like the ANC in my neighborhood never seemed […]

This week we briefly touched on the topic of the history of New York’s Central Park in the course I am a teaching assistant for here at the University of Maryland. Although the course is in Landscape Architecture and we examined Frederick Law Olmsted’s design, I thought it was important to mention a bit of […]

This week the Times’ Randall Stross examined the persistent creative fertility of San Francisco’s Silicon Valley, concluding It’s Not the People You Know. It’s Where You Are. It turns out close physical proximity makes it easier for entrepreneurs to get venture capitol, find employees willing to work for equity shares, and even get a law […]

There’s plenty of sources for advice for new bloggers. However, there’s precious little quantitative data about what factors are the most important to building readership. Among the most obvious quantitative factors — posting frequency, number of external links, blogroll size, and simple longevity — which are the most important? In general, are there statistical relationships […]

Three years after the opening of the new Washington Convention Center, only three businesses are open among the building’s 11 community retail spaces on 7th, 9th, and N Streets — Abou Master Goldsmith, Capitol Business Center, and Enterprise Car Rental. In addition to the three open business, four more have signed leases but have not […]

Since 1960, the U.S. Census has asked American households to report on their “long form” the number of cars or light trucks “kept at home for the use of members of your household.” In the 2000 Census, 10% of households nationwide reported not having any vehicles available and 34% reported having only one available.
The distribution […]