This Is the Thing That Will Destroy Our Cities

Cities are engines of innovation and wealth creation for a healthy society -- but not when the vast majority of wealth accrues to people who already have it. Today we discuss the Gini coefficient, the different ways income inequality affects US cities, and which cities are most and least affected.

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
- Most recent livestream if you're really THAT curious about the Fairbanks, Alaska pothole hotline joke: https://youtube.com/live/bpsVe7AC620?feature=share
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- CityVisit St. Petersburg FL: https://youtu.be/vOCHiisI9gY
- CityVisit Miami: https://youtu.be/YfY_durVCEU

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Resources:
- Use this Census tool to look up the Gini Index for your own geography! https://data.census.gov/table?q=B19083:%20GINI%20INDEX%20OF%20INCOME%20INEQUALITY
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
- https://data.census.gov/table?q=Income%20(Households,%20Families,%20Individuals)

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Images
- January 6 protest, Reuters
- Hurrican Katrina, Reuters
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- World income inequality map By Allice Hunter - Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank without Antarctica).svgWorld Bank Gini Index Estimate: Gini index (World Bank estimate). data.worldbank.org. Retrieved on 2022-04-23.New Zealand (2019): Household income and housing-cost statistics: Year ended June 2019 (XLSX). Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved on 24 February 2020.Oman (2018): Urban - Gini index - Omani - Total. The National Centre for Statistics and Information, Sultanate of Oman. Retrieved on 2018-05-20.Taiwan (2017): Percentage share of disposable income by quintile groups of income recipients and measures of income distribution. stat.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 2022-07-14. Retrieved on 26 June 2019.Singapore (2017): Distribution of Family Income – GINI Index. Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved on 25 January 2019.Greenland (2015): Gini Index coefficient. CIA World Factbook. Retrieved on 16 July 2021.Saudi Arabia (2013): The World Factbook. CIA.gov. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved on 28 May 2019.Cambodia (2013): Income Gini coefficient. hdr.undp.org. World Bank. Archived from the original on 10 June 2010. Retrieved on 29 January 2020.Guyana (2007): Gini Index coefficient. CIA World Factbook. Retrieved on 4 August 2021.Cuba (2000): "Cuba grapples with growing inequality". Reuters., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=117249704
- New Orleans French Quarter By No machine-readable author provided. PRA assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=686172
- Beignets - This image was originally posted to Flickr by Paul Lowry at https://flickr.com/photos/10039026@N03/2700899166. It was reviewed on 24 January 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.
- Whole Foods By M.O. Stevens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21220413

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Дата на публикация: 28 февруари, 2024
Категория: Друго
Ключови думи: thing The Is this That our will destroy Cities