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On land, if you rose to the top of a five-hundred-foot eminence—Cologne Cathedral or the Washington Monument, say—the change in pressure would be so slight as to be indiscernible. At the same depth underwater, however, your veins would collapse and your lungs would compress to the approximate dimensions of a Coke can.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Suburban lawmakers in Congress vigorously protected the long-standing ban on a commuter tax, so 66 percent of the income generated in Washington was taxed in Maryland and Virginia, where the bulk of federal workers made their homes. In addition to churches, schools, and other institutions that do not pay taxes anywhere, D.C. officials also could not tax land owned by the federal government, embassies, and nonprofits. Fully 42 percent of District land thus did not contribute to city coffers.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
By the transitive property of signifiers of neighborhood change, the very new buildings that could possibly mitigate some negative effects of newcomers, by literally absorbing them without much displacement, are almost universally regarded as symbolizing the physical and cultural exclusion of current residents. Data can nearly never account for that.
Gentrification Is Beneficial on Average, Studies Say. That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Painful for Some.
Alex Baca
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