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America is Headed for Class Warfare
Nothing has revealed the class divide in the U.S. quite like runaway inflation and skyrocketing gas prices. But in addition to the economic impact the staggering incompetence of the Biden...
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Net Domestic Migration: Shift to From Larger Metros to Smaller Areas Accelerates
Late in the last decade, domestic migrants began moving to smaller metropolitan areas and micropolitan areas (CBSA’s) as domestic migration to the larger metropolitan areas fell. The trend was covered...
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Texas Is The Future
In 1946, the American author John Gunther described Houston as “mostly ugly and barren, without a single good restaurant and hotels with cockroaches”. The only reasons to live in the city, he claimed,...
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California's Vanished Dreams, By the Numbers
Even today amid a mounting exodus among those who can afford it, and with its appeal diminished to businesses and newcomers, California, legendary state of American dreams, continues to inspire...
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Transit Ridership 53.8% of Pre-Pandemic Levels
Transit agencies carried 53.8 percent as many riders in February 2022 as in February 2020, according to data issued last week by the Federal Transit Administration. Thanks to generous federal...
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Red Dusk
David Goldman’s remarks on America’s challenges against China are, for the most part, spot-on. He is particularly on-target about two realities that may displease traditional conservatives: the failure...
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ATC – and Northern Indiana – Prosper as RV Sales Boom
Few beehives of industrial activity have prospered more through the last decade than Elkhart County, Indiana. As the global capital of recreational-vehicle manufacturing, the area prospered from the...
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The Working Classes Are a Volcano Waiting to Erupt
Whatever the final outcome, the recent French elections have already revealed the comparative irrelevance of many elite concerns, from gender fluidity and racial injustice to the ever-present ‘climate...
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Comparing Urban Densities: Winnipeg and New York
Following a recent New Geography column “Toronto Solidifies Highest Density Ranking in North America,” I received comments of disbelief, at the fact that the urban density of the Winnipeg urban area is...
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The Expanding Housing Crisis: Affordable, Attainable, or Impossible?
It's been said that everything starts in California.Politics, storms, vast amounts of (currently) sequestered, (always) predatory wealth, that “up at the end” accent no one can actually tolerate, etc....
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The Kids Are Not Alright and the Center is No Longer Holding
Across the West, the young are losing faith in the future.The recent French election provides a case study. In the first round vote, voters narrowly favored President Emmanuel Macron, the epitome of...
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Don't Look Up!
A real rock from outer space (not manmade climate change) is causing perceived rising seas.In the Netflix movie, Washington politicians “Don’t Look Up” because they prefer to remain oblivious to a...
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Serfing the Future?
Land ownership has shaped civilizations from their beginnings, with a constant interplay between great powers—the aristocracy, the state, the Church, the emperor—and those below them. History has...
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Wait, Environmentalists Are Anti-Technology?
For some reason, an increasing number of writers seem surprised to discover that environmentalists are anti-technology.Last week, Josh Barro excoriated“coalitions of NIMBYs and Malthusian...
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All Major Metropolitan Area Growth Outside Urban Core: Latest Year
The latest City Sector Model analysis of major metropolitan areas shows that dispersion accelerated in 2020 during the period covered by the American community survey 2020 five- year survey (2016 to...
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Musk May Be One of Us, Setting Coastals Atwitter
A few years ago, who’d have thunk it? But Elon Musk has earned his spurs as a resident of Flyover Country. Now he seems to be more like one of us than one of them. And Musk’s $44-billion purchase of...
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When "Restoring the Rust Belt" Becomes "Restoring the Urban Middle Class"
Here’s a followup to the post from earlier this week about my experience at a “Restoring the Urban Middle Class” conference in Houston a couple weeks ago.First, a quick recap of the earlier piece. The...
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Americans Prefer Single-Family Neighborhoods
Many surveys have found that the vast majority of Americans, including Millennials, prefer or aspire to live in single-family homes. But surveys rarely ask whether they prefer that single-family home...
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America is Quietly Reinventing Itself
The future shape of post-Covid America is beginning to emerge. As demographic trends and surveys indicate, the pandemic has helped accelerate large, epochal changes in the nation’s geography.It has...
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Paying the Poorly Educated
Joe Biden was right to propose free Pre-K education for 3- and 4-year-olds and free community college in his initial legislative package, rather than pushing for free public university education and...
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