If culture clashes are what makes cities thrive — where ideas bump up against each other and swirl together to make new things like jazz, hip hop, the kimchi burger, the Cronut — nowhere does this friction play out more than within a transit system.
I desperately wanted to feel at home, at ease, and I wanted to try to make this city – where everyone buzzed around so quickly and knocked into you with their skinny elbows – my home.
Starting in the Industrial Revolution households began migrating from rural areas, where Johnny and Sally could work on the family farm to help make ends meet, to cities, where the modern economy made kids a financial burden, requiring them to spend more and more years in school to become employable.
Electric cars may make most sense in cities where noise and pollution are big concerns and recharging networks can be dense.
The main opposition Democratic Party, strengthened by its recent merger with another party, is expected to continue making gains in the cities, where voters are younger and work in the private sector.
"Most of the money never makes it to the cities where the real problem and the economic potential is".
They have made headway in predominantly liberal cities, where local governments sympathetic to the cause have favored anti-discrimination laws that guarantee transgender people the right to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity and prevent employers from firing people for being gay.
But records show that cities where Hispanics make up a majority of the population are seizing cars at three times the rate of cities with small minority populations.
Cities where blacks make up a majority of the population, like Detroit, New Orleans and Cleveland, have tended to have underwhelming numbers of protesters and poorly organized Occupy groups.
"She doesn't seem to know how many universities we have in the UK or understand the current rules for which she is responsible, let alone appreciate the enormous contribution international students make to the universities and cities where they study.
