Lists

I really like lists, except those that make me feel a bit bad, like lists of things I still haven't accomplished. 

 

If I can figure it out, I will probably put the lists in their own separate section.

 

For now, let me put together a list of quasi-academic topics that probably could be turned into papers, but given my career trajectory I won't bother with, but instead will just muse about in this blog:

• non-events (outcomes that are widely predicted to come to pass but don't for one reason or another)
• a comparison of two such non-events - the (non)-construction of the Westway in Manhattan and the unbuilt Crosstown in Chicago
• impacts of casinos at the regional level
• an systematic approach to studying regions
• the informality of African suburbs
• a somewhat jaundiced view of the state of academia