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America's Long Suffering Rail Commuters
The long, streaking commuter trains (suburban rail) carrying workers mostly into and out of downtown every day may give the impression of “rapid transit.” However, regardless of the top speeds they...
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How to Rebuild the Republican Party after Trump's Disasters
The COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 150,000 Americans is likely to end the woeful presidency of Donald Trump. With the economy, once his strongest suit, in tatters, and two-thirds of...
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Green Policies Won't Keep California Truckin'
No state advertises its green credentials more than California. That these policies often hurt the economy, driving up housing costs and narrowing opportunities for working-class people while not even...
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Hiring Off-Duty Police Empowers Neighborhoods
Rather than defund the police, re-fund the police by having neighborhoods hire off-duty uniformed police officers and police squad cars to patrol their neighborhoods for periodic four-hour shifts. The...
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We Don't Have to Politicize Every Aspect of the Pandemic
As the United States sees its politics and economic systems become increasingly nationalized, pundits and professors have a tendency to highlight our different regions—and the unique histories and...
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The Return of White Flight
America’s downtowns, particularly those of the major cities at the heart of large metro regions of over one million people, have seen significant residential development and population growth in the...
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Slower Municipality Growth in China: 2010-2019
China, which many see as the exemplar of rapid urban growth, is accelerating its own shift towards greater dispersion.During the 2000s, the largest municipalities (formerly called prefectures) of China...
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In Praise of Streetcar Suburbs, Defined and Illustrated
If there is a single American development pattern or style that I love most, it is the streetcar suburb. Bringing more of this pattern back to our cities would be a great thing.Let me address one...
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The Future of Driving
A new study from accounting firm KPMG predicts that auto travel in the United States will be 9 to 10 percent less after the pandemic than it was before. Telecommuting, says the report, will lead to a...
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Chinese Science Fiction's Disaster Dystopias
In Ma Jian’s new novel, the protagonist, Ma Daode, may be a corrupt, womanizing local official, but he is a corrupt, womanizing local official with a mission. His goal is to develop a drug that will...
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The Democrats Put the Suburbs — and Family Life — on the November Ballot
President Trump recently decided to rescind the Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which put pressure on suburbs to construct more low-income, high-density...
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COVID Work Trip Reduction Estimates: CSAs with Transit Legacy Cities
America’s elite central business districts have symbolized the ascendency of big cities, epitomized by soaring office towers. But today, due the COVID-19 pandemic, so much office work performed in...
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How Race Politics Burns Out
No future awaits those who rage against family, work, and community.Where there is no bread, there is no Law. Where there is no Law, there is no bread. — Rabbi Elazar Ben AzariahRacial identity...
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The Twilight of Great American Cities is Here. Can We Stop It?
The dreadful death of George Floyd lit a fire that threatens to burn down America’s cities. Already losing population before the pandemic, our major urban centers have provided ideal kindling for...
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Technology's Mixed Record in Responding to a Pandemic
While it's helped a lot of Americans who are displaced from their offices get their work done, it's fallen short in areas like education and disease tracking and has once again highlighted the digital...
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Driving Bounces Back
The mayor of San Diego wants to spend $177 billion expanding the region’s transit system in order to make San Diego like “Barcelona, Madrid, Paris.” Meanwhile, Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris are becoming...
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China and India Rejecting Renewables for Coal-fired Futures
China and India are NOT buying into the global alarm movement. Never in human history have we seen two countries (China and India), each with over a billion people, in need of such gargantuan amounts...
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The Heartland's Revival
For roughly the past half century, the middle swath of America has been widely written off as reactionary, backward, and destined for unceasing decline. CNBC recently ranked the “worst states” to live...
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Bicycles: A Refuge for Transit Commuters?
This may come as a surprise, but bicycles provide more 30-minute job access than transit for the average worker in 50 large metropolitan areas (combined). This is evident from data produced by the...
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Kamala's America?
By virtue of being chosen Joe Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California has reasonable odds of becoming president someday—and probably better odds than the average running mate, given...
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