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Making Room for the Old and the New Economies
The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may be the last gasps of the Great Plains Democrats, much as California’s...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Guangzhou-Foshan
The Pearl River Delta of China is home to the largest extent of continuous urbanization in the world. The Pearl River Delta has 55 million people in the jurisdictions of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan,...
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Families: The New Demographic Mash-Up
Look back a few weeks to the surprise success in Iowa for Republican presidential primary contender Rick Santorum. Today, there is increased scrutiny of the conservative values the hard-line social...
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Who Stands The Most To Win – And Lose – From A Second Obama Term
As the probability of President Barack Obama’s reelection grows, state and local officials across the country are tallying up the potential ramifications of a second term. For the most part, the...
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Indianapolis: From Naptown to Super City
I have long touted the sports strategy that Indianapolis used to revitalize its downtown as a model for cities to follow in terms of strategy led economic and community development. I really think it...
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The Three Laws of Future Employment
As a college educator I am tasked with preparing today’s students for their future careers. Implicit is that I should know more about the future than most people. I do not - at least not in the sense...
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New Urbanism vs. Dispersionism
The Florida real estate developer, unburdened of state regulatory agencies, may now focus his efforts on pleasing the investment community and the local market. I recently played the role of real...
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How Lower Income Citizens Commute
One of the most frequently recurring justifications for densification policies (smart growth, growth management, livability, etc.) lies with the assumption that the automobile-based mobility system...
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Debating Higher Ed: STEMs, Skills, Humanities, and Hiring
Forget about all the perceived problems with the American higher education system, and ponder these two numbers: 12.8 million and 3.4 million. The first is the estimate of Americans actively looking...
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Time to Rethink This Experiment? Delusion Down Under
The famous physicist, Albert Einstein, was noted for his powers of observation and rigorous observance of the scientific method. It was insanity, he once wrote, to repeat the same experiment over and...
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Sex, Singles And The Presidency
By all accounts both President Barack Obama and his likely challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are ideal family men, devoted to their spouses and their children. But support for the two...
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The Geography of Investment Grade Wines
The world produces more than eight billion gallons of wine each year (including those Algerian reds that taste like lighter fluid). All fifty American states, including Alaska, have thriving local wine...
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Special Report: Census 2011: Urban Dispersion in Canada
Canada now has fastest-growing population in the G-8 (Note 1), according to the results of the 2011 census, released last week. Canada's growth rate from 2006 to 2011 exceeded that of the United States...
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Why Downtowns Fail and How They Can Come Back
To many Florida developers in the last decade, downtown condo towers seemed to make a lot of sense. They were sold as the logical locale for active seniors and millennials, great affordable starter...
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Arlington and Shenzhen: A Tale of Two Cities
Seven thousand miles separate Arlington, Virginia and Shenzhen, China. Two continents apart, these two cities could not be more different. Yet they are similar, geopolitically and globally. The...
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President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Digital Aristocracy
President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant political force well on its way to...
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Local Chambers of Commerce: Not Born for Ourselves Alone
Most people are more interested in organized crime than in organized business. Chambers of commerce do not often attract headlines except for the occasional, inevitable dustup with a public authority....
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Orléans, Ontario: A Franco-Ontarian Suburb
In a mere forty years Orléans has gone from an overwhelmingly French-speaking village to a suburb of Ottawa where scarcely one-third of the population has French as its mother tongue. Nonetheless, the...
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Unintended Consequences of the Neo-Traditional City Planning Model
Since the early 20th century, the almost universal adoption of the automobile by US residents has had a profound impact on how we plan and design communities. The widespread use of the auto not only...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Moscow's Auto-Oriented Expansion
Moscow is bursting at the seams. The core city covers more than 420 square miles (1,090 kilometers), and has a population of approximately 11.5 million people. With 27,300 residents per square mile...
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