Eric Jaffe
Eric Jaffe is a contributing writer to The Atlantic Cities and the author of The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America. He lives in New York.
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Why You Should Be Skeptical of Statistics on City vs. Suburban Population Growth
Columbia University planning professor David King on why calling the contest is beside the point.
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Videos
The 10 Best Songs About the Subway
Inspired by a new contest to write a song inspired by the G train.
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Of Course People Will Ride California HSR
What they may stop riding are commercial airlines, research suggests.
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Why Americans and Europeans Give Directions Differently
A new study finds big cross-cultural differences in spatial descriptions.
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The Underground New York Public Library
A subway-hopping photographer memorializes reading riders on a Tumblr blog.
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The Science of Staring
New research explains why we decide to look at what everyone else is looking at.
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The Book-Burning Campaign That Saved a Public Library
A social media hoax outwitted an anti-tax group and galvanized voters in Troy, Michigan.
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Welcome to 1940s New York
An interactive time capsule to all 116 New York City neighborhoods, from 1943.
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Surveillance Cameras Could Make Us Better People
New research finds the "bystander effect" can be offset by the presence of public self-awareness.
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Confessions of a Straphanger
Travel writer Taras Grescoe on the joys of public transportation.
