Both higher-density suburban counties and lower-density suburban counties had faster population growth than urban counties in 2015, and the gap between suburban and urban county growth was larger in 2015 than in 2014. In short, suburbanization accelerated in 2015. While population growth in urban counties has clearly recovered from the housing bubble, during which urban counties lagged for many years and even lost population in 2006, the rebound in urban population growth was brief. Urban counties outpaced all other areas only in 2011, and urban growth in 2015 slowed to its lowest level since 2007.
Population growth in the suburbs is picking up even as population growth in dense urban centres is falling. In retrospect, the population growth in dense urban centres was a transitory thing during the recession while mortgage availability dipped for a bit and renting didn’t seem so bad. Well-off college-educated white millennials want to believe our trajectory is nothing like previous generations, but empirically that’s not accurate at all.
Pas de deux. Paul Klee (1935).
Today in Romanian history
19th of November 1861
The National Conference of political leaders from Banat, held in Timisoara, is concluded. It adopted a motion which requested its independence from Hungary and for the the territory to be called Căpitanatul român, or for the region to become part of Transylvania (which was autonomous).
New York City, 1954 (via)
Motion in the ocean
Plate Tectonics and earthquake hazard assessment has benefited hugely from the existence of GPS technology. Thanks to the global GPS network, scientists can put receivers on different sides of a fault, measure how rapidly plates are moving far from the fault, and locate areas on the fault that aren’t slipping along. These areas of the fault that aren’t moving with the surrounding plate are technically called “slip-deficit regions” – they’re the part of the fault that is locked, building up stress that will at some point be released as a sudden slip in an earthquake.
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FRANCE, MONTIGNAC : An artist works on true-to-life replica of renowned Lascaux’s Stone Age cave paintings, on February 29, 2016, at the future international cave arts museum, Lascaux IV, in Montignac, western France. The cave of Lascaux is one of the largest decorated caves of the Paleolithic. The age of the paintings and engravings is estimated between about 18.000 and 17.000 years. The cave of Lascaux is reproduced identically to be mounted in the International Centre of the parietal art of Montignac-Lascaux. / AFP / MEHDI FEDOUACH
Tina St. Claire was my friend, a brilliant artist and with all meaning of the phrase, one of a kind.
Tina passed away Wednesday morning, March 9th, 2016 at her home in Los Angeles, California after courageously battling Cancer. I don’t know how to sum someone’s life or our times together up in any form or fashion, it’s an impossible feat. But Tina was the genuine article when it came to art and being an incredible person. We had many adventures in the time we knew each other and she taught me many things from all points of life. She loved her fiancé Dereck Seltzer who was her collaborator, confidant and beside her to the very end. She loved her kitten Moogle. She was never not with a sketchbook and she always had a hilarious quip ready for anything. She saw the world with a light no one else held or will hold.
I will miss my friend. Sweet dreams sidekick.
I’ve gathered a number of Tina’s works of art, collaborations with her fiancé Dereck and other miscellaneous images below. Please take a look and look through her Instagram and Tumblr, she was always, always creating.
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Andy Warhol buying Campbell’s Soup at Gristede’s supermarket on Second Ave, 1964. .
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Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake performing ‘I Feel For You’ by Chaka Khan on MMC (1993)
Red InkStone or (Rouge InkStone / 脂砚斋) is the pseudonym of an early, mysterious commentator of the 21st-century narrative, "Life." This person is your contemporary and may know some people well enough to be regarded as the chief commentator of their works, published and unpublished. Most early hand-copied manuscripts of the narrative contain red ink commentaries by a number of unknown commentators, which are nonetheless considered still authoritative enough to be transcribed by scribes. Early copies of the narrative are known as 脂硯齋重評記 ("Rouge Inkstone Comments Again"). These versions are known as 脂本, or "Rouge Versions", in Chinese.
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