by Gary Menger | Sep 3, 2020 | Menger's Musings
In the pre-automobile era, the pattern in most cities in the western world was quite similar – the wealthier you were, the closer to downtown you lived. In the twentieth century, the automobile made it possible for wealthy families to move far away from downtown and...
by Gary Menger | Aug 13, 2020 | Menger's Musings
We’ve all heard the phrase “the dog days of summer”. But where did this phrase come from? We use the phrase to refer to those hot and humid days of mid-summer, but it originates from ancient Greek culture. It was related to the rising of the star system Sirius, which...
by Gary Menger | Aug 6, 2020 | Menger's Musings
Many years ago, the company I worked for produced a business/daytime population report for radius studies. We did not have a complete business list but rather used the County Business Patterns which provides unedited (dirty) data at the ZIP code level only (not...
by Gary Menger | May 7, 2020 | Maps, Menger's Musings
There has been much discussion in recent years extolling the virtues of ethnic diversity in cities, especially as it relates to the richness of urban life. Metropolitan areas like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles offer a richness of diverse cultural and culinary...
by Gary Menger | Mar 26, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
A black swan event. We have all heard of it, but who could have imagined that the black swan would be a virus running amok, having graciously been given free airline tickets to a globally connected economy. Obviously, nobody saw this coming. On the plus side, we have...
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