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The author is asking the right questions: What is DC's "thing"? What is the food that that DC invented or that they're doing better than anyone else? DC needs a culinary identity, and you can't force it by just pulling in world class chefs. Because by definition they're making food that you can get other places.
I think DC's culinary identity will come in time now that the city is undergoing a boom and more people are putting down roots, but in the past the transitory nature of the city and the fact that so many DC natives tended to live in VA and MD kind of worked against creating that identity.
Let me ask you, how many of the restaurants you deem as good are African American soul food?
If you can find another city with D.C.'s former demographics city-wide that is considered to be a great food city, I would like to know.
San Fran and L.A. = Asian and Hispanic etc. etc.
Philly and Boston = Italian and Irish etc. etc.
New York = Italian and Irish and Asian and Hispanic etc. etc.
Washington D.C. and Baltimore and Memphis and Detriot and Atlanta = soul food
That's not from African Americans, that's from Creoles. Can you think of any other city? Also, I think this has more to do with the disrespect of African American food which is another topic all together. It's no different from the view point of going to an all Latin American club that plays Salsa and going to an all black club that plays hip-hop.
Total jobs within 0-10 miles of downtown (by MSA):
New York - 3,482,472 (54.4% of total jobs in MSA)
Los Angeles - 1,554,495 (34.8%)
Chicago - 1,167,738 (33.2%)
Washington DC - 1,011,162 (55.5%)
Boston - 989,319 (51.4%)
Philadelphia - 909,026 (39.3%)
Houston - 892,579 (50.9%)
San Francisco - 805,829 (44.7%)
Seattle - 619,589 (46.9%)
Miami - 522,722 (39.5%)
The biggest shock is Chicago. It has a fewer percentage of jobs within a 10 mile radius than LA! Didn't see that coming.
San Francisco is a lot more polycentric than given credit for--these numbers exclude economic dynamo San Jose. The two metros combined have over 2.7 million total jobs, a beastly number for its size.
With over 1.5 million jobs in a 10 mile radius, this section of Los Angeles has more employment than the entire Seattle metropolitan area (1.31 million jobs), and that still only represents slightly over a 1/3 of the total employment in the MSA.
Not LA. I found NOLA more vibrant in it's core, downtown LA seems like merely one of the many nodes in LA. Seattle is probably a real contender, maybe Baltimore might also be a contender?
Top 10 U.S. cities for transit commuters into CBD.
New York - 1,517,749
Chicago - 287,245
Washington, DC - 178,500
San Francisco - 150,724
Boston - 126,735
Philadelphia - 105,859
Seattle - 60,604
Los Angeles - 30,709
Atlanta - 24,525
Houston - 22,285
My wife drives some of the time and take transit some if the time, what category would that make her? She actually has s lot of coworkers that do the same too.
Not LA. I found NOLA more vibrant in it's core, downtown LA seems like merely one of the many nodes in LA. Seattle is probably a real contender, maybe Baltimore might also be a contender?
There's more to a core than just a CBD.
Total jobs within 0-3 miles of downtown
Los Angeles - 393,090 (8.8% of total jobs within MSA)
Seattle - 264,217 (20%)
Baltimore - 195,224 (20%)
New Orleans - 172,104 (34%)
My wife drives some of the time and take transit some if the time, what category would that make her? She actually has s lot of coworkers that do the same too.
The Census asks about your "primary mode of transportation."
Total jobs within 0-10 miles of downtown (by MSA):
New York - 3,482,472 (54.4% of total jobs in MSA)
Los Angeles - 1,554,495 (34.8%)
Chicago - 1,167,738 (33.2%)
Washington DC - 1,011,162 (55.5%)
Boston - 989,319 (51.4%)
Philadelphia - 909,026 (39.3%)
Houston - 892,579 (50.9%)
San Francisco - 805,829 (44.7%)
Seattle - 619,589 (46.9%)
Miami - 522,722 (39.5%)
The biggest shock is Chicago. It has a fewer percentage of jobs within a 10 mile radius than LA! Didn't see that coming.
San Francisco is a lot more polycentric than given credit for--these numbers exclude economic dynamo San Jose. The two metros combined have over 2.7 million total jobs, a beastly number for its size.
With over 1.5 million jobs in a 10 mile radius, this section of Los Angeles has more employment than the entire Seattle metropolitan area (1.31 million jobs), and that still only represents slightly over a 1/3 of the total employment in the MSA.
Total jobs within 0-10 miles of downtown (by MSA):
New York - 3,482,472 (54.4% of total jobs in MSA)
Los Angeles - 1,554,495 (34.8%)
Chicago - 1,167,738 (33.2%)
Washington DC - 1,011,162 (55.5%)
Boston - 989,319 (51.4%)
Philadelphia - 909,026 (39.3%)
Houston - 892,579 (50.9%)
San Francisco - 805,829 (44.7%)
Seattle - 619,589 (46.9%)
Miami - 522,722 (39.5%)
The biggest shock is Chicago. It has a fewer percentage of jobs within a 10 mile radius than LA! Didn't see that coming.
San Francisco is a lot more polycentric than given credit for--these numbers exclude economic dynamo San Jose. The two metros combined have over 2.7 million total jobs, a beastly number for its size.
With over 1.5 million jobs in a 10 mile radius, this section of Los Angeles has more employment than the entire Seattle metropolitan area (1.31 million jobs), and that still only represents slightly over a 1/3 of the total employment in the MSA.
Interesting stuff - need to read more on the report itself
These are from 2006?
Only reason I ask is looking Houston; this would suggest there are only 1.8 million jobs? which makes some sense if old and also how many people are below the working age there.
Miami also - based on thi would have 1.3/4 million jobs - Miami has both a younger and retired dynamic bringing down the percentage of workforce to people
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