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Characteristic NYC Neighborhood Complaints
New York City month continues here at Kieran Healy Industries, an effort that will eventually produce something properly scholarly in nature. But in the meantime—and with my apologies to the many great urbanists of times past—we can enjoy ourselves by messing around with some…
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Dogs of New York, Shapes and Sizes Edition
My recent Dogs of New York , post got circulated a little. On Friday I got a very nice note from William Kornblum , an urban and community studies sociologist who these days is emeritus at CUNY. In the 1980s, Bill studied the people who use Central Park and wrote a report for…
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The Decoupling of Outlet from Impact
Recently I had the happy task of contributing to a forthcoming issue of the American Behavioral Scientist honoring my PhD advisor, Paul DiMaggio . The issue engages with different aspects of Paul’s very varied work in organizations, culture, institutional analysis, and other…
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Dogs of New York
I recently updated nycdogs , a data package for R that I originally made for teaching purposes. It bundles up New York City’s dog licensing and dog bite datasets into an R package. The data is already provided by the city in a directly usable way (as CSV files), but packaging it…
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Steven Lukes, The Diversity of Morals
In August I was a discussant on a panel about Steven Lukes’s recent book, The Diversity of Morals . Here’s an extended version of what I said. A PDF version is available as well. The Diversity of Morals asks the questions philosophers ask about morality: what is “the moral”? How…
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Trump Tourism Effects
In the past day or two on social media I kept seeing this graph from a Semafor story on the declining volume of international visitors to the United States. Semafor Graph. It seems to show, and was being remarked on as showing, that the second Trump administration has been…