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Greater Los Angeles Area Growth Tanking and Dispersing
For decades, there has been substantial dispersion of population in Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles combined statistical area or CSA), as the suburban areas outside the urban core have dominated...
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The Slaughter of the Tech Unicorns
Big tech grows up, get treated with overdue suspicion, and aims to get boring.After nearly two triumphant decades marked by an unprecedented accumulation of both wealth and power, our tech oligarchy...
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Organic Urbanism is the Cure for New Urbanism
New Urbanism is like a virus. For 50 years it keeps coming back in mutated forms. It needs a cure.First, the only thing new in New Urbanism is the new construction that tears down the organic city. A...
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Climate Stalinism
The Left’s fixation on climate change is cloaked in scientism, deploying computer models to create the illusion of certainty. Ever more convinced of their role as planetary saviors, radical greens are...
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Three Studies That Show Density Doesn't Determine Car Travel
Recent research sheds new light on the critical issue of the link between car travel and urban density. Conventional planning wisdom has it that increasing development density bestows benefits, most...
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California's Man-made Power Outages
Californians are mired in a conundrum of conflicting goals to accommodate its growing population, its growing number of registered vehicles, the need for more housing to accommodate its growth, and the...
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Forced Upzoning is Bad Policy, But Here's How We Can Mitigate its Impacts
A number of bills in the legislature would attempt to “solve” the state’s housing challenges by overriding local municipal zoning ordinances and statutorily allowing developers to build up to...
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California Wildfires Ignite New Funding Battles with DC Lawmakers
As California continues to throw good money after bad and baste in the fires of its own Gehenna, the White House has threatened to cut off emergency aid (FEMA) to residents displaced by the recent...
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The Expanding and Dispersing San Francisco Bay Area
This decade has witnessed an unprecedented expansion of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area (the San Jose-San Francisco combined statistical area or CSA), with the addition of three Central Valley...
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Democracy is For the Dogs
With a new round of state and local elections just around the corner, I am regularly asked about what brings Americans out to the polls and helps them politically engage them with their communities.As...
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Gov. Newsom Throws California's Interior Under the Bus
Gov. Gavin Newsom has committed himself to look for ways of “unlocking the enormous potential” of the Central Valley, but in reality he seems more interested in slamming the door to its prosperity...
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Why America’s Free Market Economy Works Better in Some Places than Others
Is America’s free market system working as advertised? Mostly yes, but it depends to a surprising degree on where you live.If it’s working right, the free market system produces goods and services...
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Scapegoating Ride Hailing
Transit ridership in Chicago is declining. The city wants to tax ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft and give some of the money to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). To justify this, it has...
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Jews Could Swing the 2020 Election — and Why That's Not a Good Thing
In our selfie-defined culture, it’s usually considered a good thing to get attention, the more the better. But it may not be the case for Jews, or for Israel, to be caught in the firestorm that is...
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The California Exodus is Real
Not unlike the Hebrews departing Egypt and the Okies exiting the dust and famine of the 1930’s Midwest the number of Californians getting the heck out of Dodge so-to-speak is staggering.In just one...
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Unsustainable California
The recent rash of fires, like the drought that preceded it, has sparked a new wave of pessimism about the state’s future. But the natural disasters have also obscured the fact the greatest challenge...
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Expanding, Productive Mexico City: The Evolving Urban Form
Much of the media has been fascinated by the growing number of megacities (built up urban areas with at least 10 million residents). Not only are megacities regularly covered but various reports have...
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Stomping On the Suburbs
Our way of life is a miracle for this kind of world, and … the danger lies in thinking that of it as ‘natural’ and likely to endure without a passionate determination on our part to preserve and defend...
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Will Garland-to-Ueberroth-to-Wasserman Work for LA’s Latest Olympian Effort?
The name sounds like something a screenwriter might contrive – but not even Hollywood would buy a character as unlikely as William May “Billy “Garland.Maybe that’s why so few of us have heard of...
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A Clash of Values
Most American concerns with China revolve around economic issues, and, for some, the threat posed by that country’s expanding military. But China’s real existential challenge is not over market shares...
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