Risk Versus Benefit: The Threat To Urbanism
Urbanism is about choices, not inevitability, and the context of those choices has changed radically. Re-engineering cities to make them vibrant, productive and safe, in the face of a dominant atmosphere of fear, will not be easy.
You’re Unemployed and You’re Unemployed and You’re Employed… Here’s how it Breaks Down
Quietly, tens of thousands of office workers, salespeople and their managers have been let go. A restaurant or construction supply company can't do much business with all the restaurants and sites shut down. We look at unemployment claims by occupation.
It Won’t Be Your Grandfather’s Boeing Bust
The inevitable Boeing reductions will hurt the regional economy, but not nearly as much as past Boeing job cuts. Boeing is still the region’s biggest employer, but accounts for a gradually diminishing share of all jobs.
Data On Local Unemployment: Dip Before Deluge?
Even with this new, detailed data on unemployment claims, we really do not know how many people are unemployed in the traditional sense. Epidemiologists are not the only ones laboring under a lack of good data.
From A to B: Data Show the Pain in Store for Commuters from West Seattle Bridge Failure
Census data show us where West Seattle commuters go to work and begin to give an idea of the scale of the traffic mess that awaits.
The Calculus Of Optimism/Pessimism
It seems we are hard wired to focus on the negative. Pessimists avoid humiliation and, at the same time, enjoy the possibility of the ultimate reward: being the lone voice for sanity amidst the irrational exuberance of the masses. Stay pessimistic long enough and you may have your “Big Short” moment.