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A double dose of hand-drawn mappery this week as we head over to the squares of Mayfair.
The first image comes from Robin Vermeire from the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square. It’s a bit of a cheat, as Robin didn’t draw this himself – it’s taken from one of the hotel’s ‘really old brochures’. We love the way it distorts reality, showing Mayfair as a green, leafy place devoid of all buildings save the hotel and the American Embassy. And look, Regent’s Park is but a short stroll away behind Selfridges.
The second map comes from Nicholas Hudgell and gives a not-too-inaccurate account of neighbouring Berkeley Square. Among the Rich People’s houses and Rich People’s cars he’s missed the Rich People’s brothel and Rich People’s ghost. But, otherwise, this is more precise than the A-Z.
See the full article from “Londonist”
The project was chosen out of six ideas to receive funding for homeless prevention, as it provides teens leaving the foster care system a roof and other services, said Douglas Shoemaker, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing.
Residents and merchants in the neighborhood have expressed outrage at the location chosen for the housing project. Some say the new residents could bring more crime and that including affordable housing into the pricey neighborhood could affect property values.
“We have no problem with the services and what they’re doing for these young people,” said Lori Brooke, president of the Cow Hollow Association. “It’s really the place they chose that’s the problem.”
The project would cram too many people into an undersized building that offers no parking or outdoor space for smokers, she said.
Opponents also say locating the housing on Lombard Street, which they say is known for problem hotels with rampant drug use and prostitution, is not sending a good message to young people.
… We want to drive day labor away,” says Republican Rep. John Kavanagh, one of the law’s sponsors.
An estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years as it cracked down on illegal immigration and its economy was especially hard hit by the Great Recession. A Department of Homeland Security report on illegal immigrants estimates Arizona’s illegal immigrant population peaked in 2008 at 560,000, and a year later dipped to 460,000.
The law’s supporters hope the departure of illegal immigrants will help dismantle part of the underground economy here and create jobs for thousands of legal residents in a state with a 9.6 percent unemployment rate.
Kavanagh says day labor is generally off the books, and that deprives the state of much-needed tax dollars. “We’ll never eliminate it, just like laws against street prostitution,” he says. “But we can greatly reduce the prevalence.”
