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Length of Residential Tenure: Metropolitan Areas, Urban Cores, Suburbs & Exurbs
America is becoming less mobile than in the past, but there are some major metropolitan areas --- and areas within them --- that have fewer people move in and out than others. US households tend to...
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Lurching To A New Weimar
America seems to be heading inexorably toward a Weimar moment, a slide toward political polarization from which it could be increasingly difficult to return. Weimar — that brief, brilliant and tragic...
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California Supports “Foreign” Big Oil
California is home to the largest crude oil reserves in America, but the States’ choice to not drill for that oil requires in-state manufacturers to “export” billions of dollars annually to oil rich...
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Ultimate City: Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (with Photographic...
The Pearl River (Zhujiang) Delta has developed into the world’s ultimate city (Figure 1). More people live in the urbanization there than in any space of similar size in the world (Figure 2). Once home...
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Economics Blunt A Blue Wave In 2018 Elections, But Danger Signs Mount For GOP
All politics is local, Tip O’Neill observed, and despite the national battle between Donald Trump and the Democratic “resistance,” the mid-term elections in rural states and the Midwest showed this...
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Signs of Hope in California?
Ronald Reagan is not coming back, but California may be avoiding a trip to the insane asylum. Yes, the GOP’s lackluster gubernatorial candidate, John Cox, lost by almost 20 points, and the only issue...
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Superstar Effect Wins Again as Amazon Chooses New York, Washington for HQ2/3
Amazon, obviously embarrassed at the way their HQ2 process has been received, leaked the results of the competition the night before Election Day, ensuring coverage will be largely muted.Amazon has...
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To Make the Internet Great Again, Trump Must Smash Facebook and Its Tech...
Even as many Americans look with horror on the authoritarian blusterer in the White House, we are slowly succumbing to a more pernicious, less obvious and far more lasting tech oligarchy gaining ever...
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California Needs A New Economic Model
Already anointed by The New Yorker as the “head of the resistance,” Gavin Newsom could well think he’s also king of California politics. He can both sell himself as the model of progressive virtue and...
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The Other Side of the Superstar Effect
A couple of folks had interesting counterpoints to the superstar effect. Neil Strickland gave me permission to post the following email he sent:I wonder if you’ve read, or if I’ve referred to, the...
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Improved Middle-Income Estimates by Pew Research, But More Improvements Needed
There are few issues, if any, more important than income and poverty. The most successful political jurisdictions, where national or sub national, are characterized by rising incomes and falling rates...
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Resolving California's Housing and Homeless Crisis
On any given night in California, there are about 134,278 people without a home. California, with 12 percent of the U.S. population, has 25 percent of the nation’s homeless people. California’s...
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Cars and Urban Mobility
Schlomo ‘Solly’ Angel is a world renowned urbanist and author of countless books including “Atlas of Urban Expansion”, “Planet of Cities” and “Tale of Scale.” He is adjunct professor at New York...
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Jeff Bezos Is Right at Home in the D.C. Swamp, but Amazon Might Have Bit Off...
It turns out that tech oligarchs aren’t much better than old dogs at learning new tricks. By splitting his much coveted supposed second headquarters between New York City and greater Washington D.C.,...
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Energy Storage Isn’t Ready for Wide Deployment
When understanding and examining energy storage for wide-scale, societal deployment that is scalable, affordable and reliable these factors need to be included: energy security, renewable power...
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The Suburbs and the GOP
In this year’s elections, particularly in California, the suburbs spoke, and essentially destroyed Donald Trump and the Republican Party. In affluent suburban districts once controlled by the GOP –...
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The View from Hudson Street—With Thoughts on Science and Orthodoxy
Two audacious quotes in planning literature underpin this article and substitute for an introduction:"As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and...
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Monrovia, Indiana, Idyll or Elegy?
Frederick Wiseman turned his documentary filmmaking lens to the Midwest in his new work Monrovia, Indiana. My review of the film is now online at City Journal. Here is an excerpt:"Wiseman spent ten...
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Employment Access in US Metropolitan Areas (2017)
Much of the US population of the United States is located in its major metropolitan areas, those with more than one million population. In 2017, the 53 major metropolitan areas had 56% of the...
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The Gig Economy, Americans and The Future
The rise of automation and artificial intelligence is keeping many Americans up at night, worrying about their jobs, and certainly those of their children. The World Bank predicts that 57 percent of...
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