I recently wrote about this visual essay – showing the world’s population – from The Pudding.
They have some great essays. So I went exploring today.
Here is one that looks at the phenomenon of “poor-country urbanization” by way of the number of flights per day from a city.
The argument is that a low number of daily flights means that the city, despite perhaps having a large number of people, is actually quite disconnected from the global economy.
Typically, people moving from rural areas to urban areas has tended to translate into rising incomes. It has lifted people out of poverty.
But today we’re seeing examples of poor urbanization, where the migration is less about opportunity and more about necessity.
While maybe crude, this measuring stick of flights per day piqued my curiosity. So here are some preliminary figures from the Airports Council International for 2017:
The primary example mentioned in the essay is that of Kinshasa, which is the capital of the DRC.
It has a population of around 13 million people, but only 13 departing flights per day. (I’m assuming its “total movements” would be higher.)
Based on the above list, ATL has ~2,461 total movements per day (defined as an aircraft either landing or taking-off). And YYZ has ~1,275 movements per day.
Proposition C will be on San Francisco’s ballots this November 6th, 2018.
If approved by voters, the following additional taxes would be levied on businesses in order to create a dedicated fund to both support and prevent homelessness in the city:
For businesses that pay a gross receipts tax, an additional tax of 0.175 percent to 0.690 percent on those gross revenues in San Francisco over $50 million;
For businesses that pay the administrative office tax, an additional tax of 1.5 percent of their payroll expense in San Francisco.
Marc Benioff – the founder of Salesforce (which happens to be the city’s largest employer) – has emerged as the lead supporter of Prop C. Between personal and corporate funds, he has contributed almost $8 million to getting this passed.
But other billionaires in the Bay Area, such as Jack Dorsey of Twitter, have taken a different position, instead siding with Mayor London Breed, who does not support Prop C.
If you’re interested in this topic, the New Yorker has a piece called, The Battle of the Big-Tech Titans Over San Francisco’s Tax for the Homeless
For those of you who aren’t going to be in Toronto next week, you can stop reading now and check back tomorrow. For the rest of you, next week is The Future Cities Canada Summit, which will be taking place from November 7 - 9. Full schedule, here.
Day 1 equals the Urban Land Institute Symposium 2018, which is all about Toronto urbanism. The tagline is: “Explore the urban frontiers of North America’s fastest growing, and the world’s most diverse city-region.”
A big part of day 1 will be bus tours around the city. And one of those tours is going to be focused on Toronto’s laneways. I am a speaker on that tour and the bus will be stopping at Junction House to talk about the laneway houses that we plan to release as part of the project.
But there’s much more to this summit than just laneway housing.
I recently wrote about this visual essay – showing the world’s population – from The Pudding.
They have some great essays. So I went exploring today.
Here is one that looks at the phenomenon of “poor-country urbanization” by way of the number of flights per day from a city.
The argument is that a low number of daily flights means that the city, despite perhaps having a large number of people, is actually quite disconnected from the global economy.
Typically, people moving from rural areas to urban areas has tended to translate into rising incomes. It has lifted people out of poverty.
But today we’re seeing examples of poor urbanization, where the migration is less about opportunity and more about necessity.
While maybe crude, this measuring stick of flights per day piqued my curiosity. So here are some preliminary figures from the Airports Council International for 2017:
The primary example mentioned in the essay is that of Kinshasa, which is the capital of the DRC.
It has a population of around 13 million people, but only 13 departing flights per day. (I’m assuming its “total movements” would be higher.)
Based on the above list, ATL has ~2,461 total movements per day (defined as an aircraft either landing or taking-off). And YYZ has ~1,275 movements per day.
Proposition C will be on San Francisco’s ballots this November 6th, 2018.
If approved by voters, the following additional taxes would be levied on businesses in order to create a dedicated fund to both support and prevent homelessness in the city:
For businesses that pay a gross receipts tax, an additional tax of 0.175 percent to 0.690 percent on those gross revenues in San Francisco over $50 million;
For businesses that pay the administrative office tax, an additional tax of 1.5 percent of their payroll expense in San Francisco.
Marc Benioff – the founder of Salesforce (which happens to be the city’s largest employer) – has emerged as the lead supporter of Prop C. Between personal and corporate funds, he has contributed almost $8 million to getting this passed.
But other billionaires in the Bay Area, such as Jack Dorsey of Twitter, have taken a different position, instead siding with Mayor London Breed, who does not support Prop C.
If you’re interested in this topic, the New Yorker has a piece called, The Battle of the Big-Tech Titans Over San Francisco’s Tax for the Homeless
For those of you who aren’t going to be in Toronto next week, you can stop reading now and check back tomorrow. For the rest of you, next week is The Future Cities Canada Summit, which will be taking place from November 7 - 9. Full schedule, here.
Day 1 equals the Urban Land Institute Symposium 2018, which is all about Toronto urbanism. The tagline is: “Explore the urban frontiers of North America’s fastest growing, and the world’s most diverse city-region.”
A big part of day 1 will be bus tours around the city. And one of those tours is going to be focused on Toronto’s laneways. I am a speaker on that tour and the bus will be stopping at Junction House to talk about the laneway houses that we plan to release as part of the project.
But there’s much more to this summit than just laneway housing.
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