It feels more gentrified and upscale these days but still has a revolutionary streak, and is now the hub of Germany's digital currency boom, with the world's highest density of businesses accepting Bitcoin.
These two tradespeople are among around a dozen in the Graefekiez, a cosy neighbourhood established in the 19th century in the southern Berlin district of Kreuzberg, which currently boasts the highest density of businesses accepting the currency in the world.
During the 1990s, Salford Quays became a business district specifically redeveloped for commerce, leisure, culture and tourism with a high density of business units and modern housing, complemented by a cinema complex, office blocks, and waterfront promenade.
Moreover, past research has used census tracts as units of analysis to examine densities of businesses and violent crimes (e.g., Gruenewald et al. 2006; Livingston 2008; Zhu et al. 2004).
Stakeholder groups must prove that the city is committed to social entrepreneurship, and has a high density of social businesses.
Results indicate that landscape pattern, as captured by measures of both land cover (e.g. the extent of open space and landscape diversity) and land use (e.g. the density of regional businesses) are important predictors of car ownership and use.
When I asked Graham, he didn't seem necessarily sure if the Y Combinator model would work outside of Silicon Valley, where there is a high density of active business angels and investors.
The company has taken its Places data and provided overviews of the density and type of businesses in the area.
"New York has so much more density of, especially, small businesses, and I think the City Council is much more unified ideologically against Wal-Mart than the Chicago City Council is," he said.
"I think there are certain companies that should be built in New York, taking advantage of what the city has to offer," adds Tisch, adding that the density of people and business are uniquely suited to certain kinds of business models, where "every stop on the Subway can be a different demographic".
She said the City "was the most intense part of London, because of the density and variety of business and the density of residents and culture.
