Original cartoon of "The Gerry-Mander,” the political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymandering.Boston Centinel, 1812 / Public Domain Packing is drawing a single district to include as many of the opposing party’s voters as possible. This helps the incumbent party’s candida...
The data collection effort involved establishing base maps of all parcels making up the three cities—Boston, Chicago, and Seattle proper, not any of their surrounding communities—in 2010 and 2020, followed by a geometric comparison. Changes to the parcel layers over the intervening decade were t...
In the US, there is not a clear-cut distinction between urban and suburban areas. Because major cities and their surrounding communities vary so much in size and density, it’s tough to apply one measurable definition to all metropolitan areas. Both thePew Research Centerand theCensus Bureauack...
Secrecy surrounding eating Orthorexia You might not have heard of orthorexia. However, this eating disorder is increasing in the United States. Part of the reason for the increase may be due to the emphasis in social media on “clean eating” and other extremely restrictive diets. Family and fr...
Boston: The Boston Police Department has recommended that trick-or-treating end no later than 8:30 p.m. Chicago: The city has no set hours, but many Chicago trick-or-treat hours end between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Cincinnati: Hours for the city and surrounding suburbs range between 6...
That is why, Warren says, Boston transplants tend to discard their vehicles for the city’s public transportation. According to tax information firm Avalara, Boston has a sales tax of 6.25%, levied by the state. The rate is lower than in cities such as San Francisco, Seattle,ChicagoandNew...
What are they ― and the colleges in them ― really like Here the term "suburb" is used loosely, to include small cities, large towns, or the residential areas near cities. For example, both Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts are in ...
Boston: Now Wangkun Jia // Shutterstock Boston: Now Custom House Tower remains visible in the city's contemporary skyline, but it's a little like finding a needle in a haystack—it is now the 17th tallest structure in Boston. Like so many other cities, Boston experienced significant migrati...
In fact, a Boston College survey of 3,000 employed fathers discovered that almost 90% of them thought their employers should offer paid paternal leave. Regarding paternity leave as we currently know it, one study found that less than 5% of American fathers took two or more weeks of paid ...
named after James Gall and Arno Peters, is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection. It achieved considerable notoriety in the late 20th century as the centerpiece of a controversy surrounding the political ...