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I live in San Antonio. No way is this accurate. I can't think of literally anywhere in the city nearly 40 minutes away from basics. Where did this come from? What are they defining as "amenities", does it have to be a Whole Foods? Did they exclude bikes, scooters, buses, what?
Quite surprised about Amsterdam. It's one of my favorite EU cities and very walkable.
Rotterdam is a dump but both European outliers being Dutch suggest there's something off about the methodology in the Netherlands.
Hmm, having lived in Shanghai for many years, and walked to nearly everything, this chart is suspect to me, though it's a huge city - way more convenient than almost anywhere, in my experience. And biggest subway & bus systems in the world.
The graph looks seriously wrong - for European cities it only deals with city-center inhabitants.
Eg the 2 million inner-Paris inhabitants, not the 12 other million living in the greater Paris.
This chart gives two extra dimensions that I don't care about and leaves off two that I do - population size and density.
Also where is NY?
Best benchmark is availability of food delivery services—and their cost. In many cities across Asia, delivery drivers on bikes and scooters bring just about anything you’d want to get outside. Distance for citizens to go somewhere? Please…
Interesting, but as someone who has lived/traveled extensively in both places, I will die on the rock of there being absolutely no way Shanghai is less convinient than Dallas or San Antonio.
Taipei would be one of the most convenient cities if it were on this list.
Here in Australia my home is 15 minutes from amenities. But it cost twice as much as a place that isn't, and it also cost twice as much as it did just a few years ago.
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There's other things to consider though like the price per square metre of housing. Seoul might be more convenient than Dallas but not better if you have to live in a tiny pod apartment.
I also find axes here suboptimal. Do a true scatter plot (percent of amenities as the X axis) and color by continent.
Rotterdam is tiny compared with Mumbai. Do not understand why Rotterdam is such an outlier
Either this chart is missing a lot of cities in other continents, or no one quite does it like Europe
Had to check what Rotterdam looks like on google maps, and it's a tiny city center with skyscrapers surrounded by a sea of two story buildings and extremely wide streets.
Noah, this map shows food availability in all US Cities...worth checking out relative to this interesting chart: realbloc.com/map/?theme=foo
Chinese technology companies like Huawei and ZTE are contributing to smart city development on the continent, but analysts warn that their tools provide authoritarian governments with the means to spy on citizens and promote repression.
But with China doing a lot more to build the infrastructure for electric vehicles.
Great chart. This concept of "accessibility" to amenities is further expanded in a book by Umich professors Jonathan Levine and Joe Grengs, very surprised to learn that this metric is not widely used in urban/regional planning.
something is off for sure. amsterdam is for sure more convenient than london (having lived in both). maybe they define city limits in an odd way
interesting that NY isn't singled out on the chart. though it depends a lot on where you live in the city.
Could China's data be somewhat distorted due to their cities being basically huge provinces with low density?
The UK is much more European than anglo-saxon evidence number 2347 
I’m from Rome. Very skeptical of this chart. Maybe you can find many shop nearby, but if your doctor is in another neighborhood it can take 1 hour or more
Complete b/s chart. Any Chinese city is about 10x more convenient than London or Paris.
US Suburbia is better than Rotterdam? An US "journalist" is telling fairy tales. May a healthy bit less of patriotism would help with your missing credibility as a propaganda machine
Lol you fucking dumbass. Take this down. You’re getting dumped on in every direction like urinals by Dutch canals.
You demonstrate a very great inability to think outside your very small coconut shell
Can you imagine what the USA could be with a goal-oriented government? If we add on social democracy, we have the shining star of the world.
I can claim that the data here for Chinese cities are basically sh*t because you can literally refer to that link, find a subway station, and realize that the block over it has a "moving" time of a whopping 20 minutes.
Don't trust anything with Google Map if you talk about China
This is absurd if you ever lived in China. Another case of shiny infographics failing a basic reality check.
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ILA president Harold Daggett thinks you should have to wait in lines at toll booths so that unionized workers can be employed to collect the tolls.
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In this recent interview segment, ILA boss Daggett makes a great case for the benefits of port automation
Reminds me of an Ezra Klein–Matt Yglesias podcast back in the day about the platinum coin
Ezra: "Now, I don't know how many dimes are in a trillion dollars, but..."
Matt: "It's 10 trillion dimes"
Ezra: "Fuck you"
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This dude is singlehandedly sending support for unions back to the Reagan-era
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ILA president Harold Daggett thinks you should have to wait in lines at toll booths so that unionized workers can be employed to collect the tolls.
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