The BLS reported that the unemployment rate for North Port fell 0.0 percentage points in September 2010 to 12.6%. For the same month, the metro unemployment rate was 0.7 percentage points higher than the Florida rate. The unemployment rate in North Port peaked in March 2010 at 12.3% and is now 0.4 percentage points lower. From a post peak low of 11.4% in June 2010, the unemployment rate has now grown by 0.5 percentage points.
Unemployment Rate September 2010 Month/Month Year/Year
National 9.6% 0.0 -0.2
Florida 11.9% +0.1 +0.7
North Port 12.6% 0.0 +0.2
Note: Metro level data is not seasonally adjusted.1 All comparisons are made with September 2010 data as October metro level unemployment data has not yet been released.
Are People Really Fleeing Shrinking Cities?
Interesting Article in the Urbanophile about the shrinking of Midwest Cities.
Interesting Article in Planetcitizen About Sustainable Bulding Materials
Scientists in Spain and Scotland found that simply adding wool and a natural polymer found in seaweed to the clay of a brick makes it 37% stronger, and more resistant to the cold wet climate often found in Britain.
Another innovation comes from the world of concrete production, which accounts for a staggering 7-10% of global carbon dioxide emissions. When producing sustainable concrete crushed glass can be added, as can wood chips or slag - a byproduct of steel manufacturing. Whilst these changes aren’t radically transforming concrete, by simply using a material that would have otherwise gone to waste, the CO2 emissions associated with concrete are reduced.
Urbanophile
Urbanization, one of humankind’s most successful and ambitious programs, is the triumph of the unnatural over the natural, the grid over the organic… Underway on a scale never before witnessed, one side effect of urbanization is the liberation of vast depopulated territories for the efficient production of “nature”. Bruce Mau |
Great Quote from
One of my favorite blogs about urban development.
Excellent and positive article
David Brooks, one of my favorite pundits, writes a positive article about the economic future of America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/opinion/09brooks.html?_r=4&src=me&ref=homepage
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/opinion/09brooks.html?_r=4&src=me&ref=homepage
Migrant Workers Cars
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I thought the photo above was interesting. The photo shows the cars of workers in the fields near Point Magu, Ventura County, California. They look pretty modern.
I worked for a short time with migrant workers on the east coast in 1966. No one owned a car then - they were transported to and from jobs by an entrepreneur who owned an old school bus. So we have made some economic progress over the past 40 plus years.
China
Timeless China - Fisherman in the River
Fisherman in the River Surrounded by New Upscale Development
The pace of new development in China is incredible.
Urban renewal is underway everywhere
in the prosperous cities of eastern China.
Most of the new development is near efficient public transit.
New developments are very well lanscaped.
More Photos and Info about our recent Chamber of Commerce China Trip
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