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From Madera and Joplin to New York: Dispersed, Not Dense Urban Areas Dominate...
For some time, the mainstream press and conventional urban planners have been obsessed with a “dense urban” narrative. This is largely a myth, as has been demonstrated by resurgent growth in suburbs...
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Closing the Gap
China is building a magnetically levitated (maglev) train that will “fill the gap between high-speed rail and air transportation,” says CNN. This new train may have a top speed of 370 miles per hour,...
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The Green New Deal’s Epic Transportation and Commerce Fail
On the surface, the Green New Deal (GND) sounds enlightening. Use a nonexistent super grid of renewable intermittent electricity energy to replace fossil fuels so we can all breath air with no...
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Obstacle Course
I was in Atlanta last month and was encouraged to poke around by the people who invited me. For my entire life the greater Atlanta metroplex has grown in population, geographic size, economic...
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The Resistance We Need: The Trump Administration Gears Up to Trust-Bust the...
If ever any group had it coming, it’s the giants of the tech industry. The recent decision by the Trump administration to look into monopolistic practices by the tech oligarchs—talk about...
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New Metropolitan Rankings Show Knowledge-Based Industries and...
Today, the Walton Family Foundation released “The Most Dynamic Metropolitans,” new research ranking the economic performance of metropolitan areas in the Heartland and across the country. The study...
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The Populist Dilemma
The recent upsurge in support for populist conservatives, not only across Europe, but in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and even India has inspired talk of a “a nationalist revival” and “the...
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When it Comes to Road Diets, Small Businesses are the Biggest Losers
Twenty-one businesses have closed in less than two years since the city of Los Angeles reconfigured a 0.8 stretch of Venice Boulevard in the west side’s Mar Vista neighborhood. The city replaced one of...
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California’s Progressive Betrayal
The recent California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco exposed the divide between the state’s progressive and working-class voters. Progressives, in their militant certitude, support...
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The “New Zealand Dream” is Still Alive
The promotion of middle-income home ownership long has been a policy priority of governments around the world. This includes New Zealand, as Gael Ferguson indicated in The New Zealand Dream, published...
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What Is Social Justice?
Perhaps no issue more motivates progressive activists than social justice. Good intentions may motivate the social justice warriors, albeit sometimes sprinkled with a dollop of self-hatred. But good...
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New Urbanism and Jane Jacobs – A Tangled Disconnect
By a majority of votes and voluminous citations, Jacobs tops the list of the 20th century's most influential urban thinkers. Had this been a transient fascination, as with literary works, it would be a...
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The Shanghai to Changzhou Adjacent Urban Areas (with a Photographic Tour)
After China’s Guangzhou-Hong Kong adjacent urban areas in the Pearl River Delta (see: “Ultimate City: The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”), the second most expansive urbanization in the...
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As United States Divide, the Green New Deal Could Be Democrats’ Undoing in 2020
If next year’s election is a referendum on Donald Trump, you can hand power to the Democrats now. But fortunately for the president, and the Republican Party, politics remains more about interests than...
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The Midwest’s Small Suburbs
I’ve been examining data lately, revisiting a topic I’m mentioned in the past, namely the smaller sizes of suburbs in Midwest cities compared to other parts of the country. This applies to much of the...
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China's Urban Crisis
China stands as the primary exhibit of twenty-first-century urbanism. At a time when elite cities in the West barely manage to grow in population, Chinese cities have emerged out of virtually nothing,...
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What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us?
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown. ~Aldous Huxley,Brave New World RevisitedThe recent movement to investigate, and even break up, the...
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Primer on Politics of Homelessness in LA
I’ll start by giving you all a chance to consider some basic questions that Mayor Eric Garcetti and his staff failed to address – and the mainstream media – left hanging in the wake of a report that...
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The Rise of the Intolerant Left
In the past, the right, notably the segment affiliated with religious belief, was closely associated with censorship and control of thought. Today, enforced orthodoxy derives primarily from the left,...
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Is There A Future For Transit-Oriented Development in Orange County, CA?
California was once a state of great builders, and its legacy of grand construction projects remains plenty visible today. Major infrastructure investments like the California Aqueduct enabled the...
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