David Banks

May 6, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Banks

Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. •••On Sunday afternoon, I went for a walk in my southwest Minneapolis neighborhood. If you also were alive on Sunday, you know it was a most glorious spring day around Minnesota. Above all, it smelled like spring. People of this latitude know what that means and how it makes a person feel. It's promise fulfilled. Moreover, it was a weekend spring day.

Nov 16, 2023 | science.org | Huan Wang |Jeremy Owen |Jerrin Thomas George |David Banks

Calyampudi Radhakrishna (“C. R.”) Rao, a giant in the field of statistics, died on 22 August at the age of 102. Rao invented information geometry and other fundamental tools in statistics, and he contributed to geology, biometry, demography, econometrics, genetics, anthropology, medicine, and national planning through foundational statistical theorems, scientific collaborations, and decades of advocacy of statistical practices. Generations of statisticians benefited from his mentorship.

Jul 25, 2023 | businessinsider.com | David Banks

Cities across America are undergoing big changes. The shift to remote work early in the pandemic allowed wealthy residents to ditch big cities in droves and set up shop in smaller cities and towns nearby. This mass reshuffling caused huge spikes and dips in populations, and nearly every locale across the country has felt the impact at some point.

Jul 21, 2023 | freedownloadcad.com | David Banks

Market forces are pushing cities towards a shallow and Instagram-friendly impression of authenticity that makes everywhere feel the same, writes David A Banks. If you’ve started traveling again since the pandemic, you may have noticed something unsettling. Maybe you detected it before the lockdown too. Everywhere looks the same, even as each city proclaims louder than ever that they are unique and different. Cities and neighborhoods are branding themselves into predictably unique products.

May 11, 2023 | podcasts.apple.com | Paris Marx |David Banks

Paris Marx is joined by David A. Banks to discuss how cities have been reshaped to attract tech companies and what the consequences have been for the people who live in them. David A. Banks is the author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. He’s a lecturer in the Geography and Planning department at University at Albany, SUNY. David also writers Other Day and co-hosts Iron Weeds. Follow David on Twitter at @DA_Banks.