New demographic figures make clear what a statistical outlier Seattle is, with few families, few kids, high education, and rapid gentrification. Only San Francisco can compare.
<i>Closing In, Kwajalein Atoll</i> (1944). (Official U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph, National Park Service, <a href='http://www.nps.gov/amme/index.htm' target='_blank'>American Memorial Park</a>, Mariana Islands, Saipan).
An urban geographer uses un-rose-tinted glasses in peering into the crystal ball. He finds that we will not be able to do much about growing income segregation, congestion, gentrification in Seattle...
Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing <i>Salmonella typhimurium</i> (red) invading cultured human cells. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
The pattern is very strong: In Seattle you have affluent, largely single people chasing a small supply of urban housing. The result is small household size, an exodus of families to the suburbs, and...
