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Ottawa, Canada is Following Germany's Failed Climate Goals
Shockingly, just to reduce emissions to supposedly stop climate change, the city of Ottawa, Canada is following the lead of Germany, Australia, and California that now have among the highest costs for...
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Metro Costs of Living and Domestic Migration: 2010-2020
As the recently ended decade evolved, migration from more costly US metropolitan areas to those with lower costs increased. This developing dispersion is indicated in net domestic migration among the...
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Is Suburbia’s Global Benchmark Share of Urban Jobs 87%?
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears....
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St. Louis Plans More Transit Spending
The Shiloh-Scott extension added 3.5 miles to St. Louis’ light-rail system in 2003, yet St. Louis transit carried 4.5 percent fewer bus and rail riders in 2004 than it had carried in 2002.As an op-ed...
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The Last Utopia: The 15-Minute City
Mayors and urban planners have crucial roles in the management of cities. They must help cities adapt rapidly when confronted with external shocks—the pandemic is only the latest one of these. To be a...
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California Imported Crude Oil Ranks as a Major Emissions Generator
Shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world. The fuel used is the cheapest and most polluting fuel available for the world’s 90,000 ships that burn approximately 370 million tons of...
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What Can Jersey City Teach Us About YIMBYism?
I’m back. I haven’t written much lately but I am always reading and gathering topics for future posts. Here’s one.Over the last 2-3 months, I’ve come across Twitter discussions among many...
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A New Dawn for the Working Class?
The labouring masses are restless, as evidenced by the Canadian trucker strike, union drives in Amazon warehouses in the US and in demonstrations throughout the developing world. More revealing still...
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$85 Billion for Empty Buses and Railcars
The future of public transit is nearly empty buses and railcars. Yet President Biden’s American Jobs Plan calls for spending $85 billion on transit. Although transit carries less than 1 percent of...
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The Zaibatsu-ization of America
Enthusiasts of “the new economy” long cherished the notion that it would be different from the unenlightened, sluggish, and piggish older one. Yet our economy seems increasingly to resemble not some...
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Monopoly Hotels
I recently enjoyed a podcast where the two hosts engaged in a bit of banter about real estate. One had gradually purchased a few homes in a row along the same street and compared them to the little...
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Are We Really Among the Wealthiest People on the Planet?
There are lots of ways of measuring how New Zealand is doing, and none of them is perfect.We stack up very well on measures like life expectancy, unemployment, infant mortality, and car ownership. Not...
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Green Hypocrisy Hurts the Poorest
Roughly a half century ago, rising energy prices devastated Western economies, helping make the autocrats of the Middle East insanely rich while propping up the slowly disintegrating Soviet empire....
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Canada: Suburbs Dominate Growth - 2021 Census
Canada has released early results of the 2021 Census, with a detailed analysis of growth in Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs). Among the 41 metropolitan areas, 77% of the population growth between the...
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The Evolving Geography of Opportunity: Leading Cities of the Past, Present,...
Cities which rise up as centers of prosperity and opportunity are places that ensure an emphasis on learning and innovation, a culture of openness to newcomers and unorthodox ideas, a favorable...
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The New Eurasian Century
The current crises in eastern Europe reflect more than just Kremlin mischief-making—they reflect the first fruits of an emerging world order that spans the vastness from Beijing to Berlin. Unlike the...
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EVs Face Regional Divide — But For How Long?
It’s always been in the background of the nation’s ongoing transition to electric transportation, but now a significant reality has been brought to the forefront by some data-crunching journalists:...
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The Tech Breakdown
The record meltdown of Meta stock earlier this month suggests turbulence in the tech world and a difficult period ahead for the company formerly known as Facebook. But even as Meta’s stock has fallen,...
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Domestic Migration 2010-2020: Flocking to Affordability
Some metropolitan areas continue to have higher costs of living relative to the national average. The most important component is the extent to which higher housing costs contribute to these...
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Exurbia Rising
Perhaps nowhere is the gap between America’s cognitive elite and its populace larger than in their preferred urban forms. For nearly a century—interrupted only by the Depression and the Second World...
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