@zhang_heqing Not long ago, people lost their jobs for mocking Charlie Kirkโs death. Where is the moral ground for ridiculing Chinese people who demand respect for a leader they regard as a hero? Respect for those we admire should not depend on whose heroes they are.
The Geography of Extraction in Harare
In Harare, betting houses do not appear randomly distributed. They seem concentrated in areas where secondary education is the dominant, highest level of attainment and along dense commuter and informal-commercial corridors.
It recalls older urban stories from Southern Africa, where beer halls and beer gardens were strategically placed along the daily routes of working men โ the idea being that wages were spent before workers even arrived home.
Whether intentional or structural, the modern geography of betting raises similar questions about how urban movement, economic vulnerability, and commercial extraction intersect in the city.
Maps do not prove causation. But they do reveal patterns worth interrogating. ๐ฟ๐ผ
Data Sources:
Map A: Harare Master Plan (Education Levels)
Map B: @DeepDiveDataZW (Betting House Locations)
Maps C & D: UNICEF (School Connectivity & Cellular Coverage)
#Harare #SpatialAnalysis #UrbanPlanning #Zimbabwe #DataViz #CivicTech
As a @CEU alum, Orbรกnโs electoral defeat feels long overdue. Lex CEU disrupted my first European academic home and hit African students especially hard. Many of us worked relentlessly to get there, and CEU opened doors that have since narrowed with the move to Austria.
Iโve published a new essay on archaeology, higher education, and how value is being quietly redefined under economic strain.
Rather than asking whether the humanities โmatter,โ it asks how some ways of thinking come to feel dispensable.
Read here:
https://t.co/Cd6ToV3eDN