New Haven and The Atlantic Cities

[krasnoludek]

I found this website a couple months ago called The Atlantic Cities. I think I was looking for this article I once read about the increased hazards to everyone else (regular car drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians) from SUVs being on the road. I didn't find that article and instead stumbled upon some articles about New Haven's plan for redoing its

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[easwaran]

The Atlantic Cities is a great site. I just wish they would stop getting Richard Florida to write anything. That example you have about binge drinking is a tamer example, but it does have his signature move, where he says "of course correlation doesn't equal causation, but..." and then proceeds to talk about a bunch of correlations as if they were causal. He didn't mention the "creative class" in that one (which is an idea I like, but most of the time he uses it as though there really is something unified, when clearly the correlation he is talking about is explained by just one factor, and not the whole creative class angle).

[krasnoludek]

"I just wish they would stop getting Richard Florida to write anything."

That might be hard, considering "Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities."