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California Not The Model For America It Thinks It Is
In the past, wrote historian Kevin Starr, California “was a final frontier: of geography and of expectation.” Today in the Trump era, California remains a frontier, but increasingly one that appeals...
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Chicago, Detroit and the Rust Belt Bifurcated City
So I got into a rather interesting discussion last week in the comments section of Aaron Renn's Urbanophile website in a piece he wrote about population transformation in Pittsburgh and Chicago. And it...
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Poverty is Worse than Sprawl: California's Housing Affordability Crisis
Rent control supporters in California recently announced that they have enough signatures to qualify a state proposition to remove limitations on municipalities to control rents. Their purpose is to...
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Where Talent Wants To Live
With unemployment down and wages rising, there’s growing concern that a lengthy and potentially crippling talent shortage will sweep the U.S. Addressing this could become a critical issue for...
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The Urban Humanism Manifesto: Putting Communities First
Urban planning exists to serve people and communities, not the other way around. Unfortunately, urban planners these days, perhaps under the influence of academic arrogance as well as the lure of...
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Looking Beyond One-Party Rule In California
It’s been a half century since Ronald Reagan shocked California, and the nation, by beating the late Pat Brown for governor by a million votes. Yet although the Republican Party is a shadow of its...
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The Best Cities For Jobs 2018: Dallas And Austin Lead The Surging South
Among America’s largest metropolitan areas, the economic leaders come in two flavors: Southern-fried and West Coast organic. The first group flourishes across a broad range of industries, fed by strong...
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Birthplace of Capitalism
Today it is commonly believed that advanced business is a European or even American invention, while the Middle East is a place of eternal non-economic conflict. Yet in reality, the first enterprises...
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Slouching Towards Luxury
An article about the resurgence of independent bookstores has been making the rounds."Between 2009 and 2015, more than 570 independent bookstores opened in the U.S., bringing the total to more than...
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Larger Metropolitan Areas Dominated by Suburban & Exurban Population
Since 2014, the City Sector Model has been used to portray population trends by functional area within the 53 major metropolitan areas (major metropolitan areas). The current edition classifies small...
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The Urban Frontier Cabin
The current conundrum for many people is simple. You might want to live in one of the expensive bubbles of economic and cultural vibrancy in order to access good paying jobs and upward mobility. But...
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Finance Flies West, and South
The recently announced departure of New York City-based Alliance Bernstein for Nashville, taking more than 1,000 jobs with it, suggests a potential loosening of New York’s iron grip on the...
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Do Big Cities Make Us Dumber?
You may remember Geoffrey West from his TED Talk about the scaling laws of cities that got a lot of press a while back. He has now turned his research findings into a book. Famed physicist Freeman...
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Growth In America Is Tilting To Smaller Cities
We are often told that America’s future lies in our big cities. That may no longer be entirely true. Some of the strongest job creation and population growth is now occurring in cities of 1 million...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Madrid
Madrid is the capital of Spain, as well as its largest built-up urban area, with an estimated 6.4 million population in 2018. Madrid’s urban area plus economically connected rural and small town areas...
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As Goes The Suburbs, So Goes The Nation?
The sound-bite version of American politics tends to come from our dominant media centers on the coasts, while the right-wing counter-culture snarls back from the smaller cities and towns of the...
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Designing for Both the Car and Pedestrian
In the rare moment that the Minneapolis weather allows and I have the time, I ride my bicycle instead of driving. I’m not one of those people who have a $4,000 bike wearing Lance Armstrong clothing, I...
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The Horrors of Marxism Not So Clear to America's Young
Karl Marx’s birthday may have been 200 years ago, but his philosophy has come back from the dead. Today, China, an emerging superpower, is celebrating his “genius,” while Marxist ideology is gaining...
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Where College Grads Are Moving
The Wall Street Journal just ran an interesting interactive feature looking at where college grads move after graduation. They looked at 445 schools, and tracked destinations by metro area. They...
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Pervasive Suburbanization: The 2017 Data
The most recent Census Bureau population estimates have made it clear that migration to the suburbs and away from urban cores has accelerated dramatically since the early years of the Great Recession...
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