Pullman was reputed to have the lowest death rate of any community in the world since its completion in 1881.
Quotes
Until only recently in human history, to live in the center of town was a mark of status and privilege, while to live on
interesting cities – ingredients
A great city is not a work of inspired scene painting, static and splendid. It is a living drama with a huge and varied
When St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke announced plans, approved by the Inglewood City Council last night, for an 80,000-seat, NFL-worthy stadium and entertainment
At Microsoft, he built a mapping tool that considered fifty-six different criteria to generate a “heat map” indicating the best location for a data
walking from a mortgage
Wayne Bryant and his wife have just stopped paying the mortgage on their home in northern California, even though they can afford to pay.
life expectancy
By one reckoning, life expectancy on Earth improved by as much in the twentieth century as in the whole of the preceding eight thousand
Boethius
If you want to be resplendent in the dignities of high office, you will have to grovel before the man who bestows it; in
George Gissing
“I don’t know. It happened to catch my eye in the paper yesterday that someone was to be hanged at Newgate (footnote – Newgate