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No, It's the Deniers who Are Wrong
Dennis Meyers is the Principal Economist at California’s Department of Finance. He has recently published two parts of what is promised to be a four-part series titled The Declinists are Wrong. He...
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Cities, Cars, People: Is Changing Car Use a Function of New Urbanism?
One cornerstone for urban designers and planners seeking to transform the polycentric or suburban city of the 20th Century into something resembling the high density city of the 19th was a cross-city...
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Millennials’ Home Ownership Dreams Delayed, Not Abandoned
Eighty percent of Americans buy their first house between the ages of 18-34. While the Millennial Generation’s (born 1982-2003) delayed entry into all aspects of young adulthood has sometimes been...
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Historic Heritage of the Rust Belt
I’ve been spending a lot of time in Ravenna recently. No, not the town in Italy with its early Christian buildings and glittering mosaics. I mean Ravenna, Ohio, a small industrial city of some 12,000...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Tokyo
Tokyo is the ultimate in urbanization, being nearly one-half larger than any other urban area in the world. Further, Tokyo has retained been the largest urban area in the world for longer than any...
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Thunder On The Great Plains: A Written-Off Region Enjoys Revival
They may not win their first championship against Miami’s evil empire, but the Oklahoma City Thunder have helped to put a spotlight on what may well be the most surprising success story of 21st century...
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Will Servants' Quarters Come Back, Too?
As the Great Recession enters its fourth summer, America continues to separate into the multiple economic strands that characterized an earlier day. Our cities, built mostly since the 1930s, poorly...
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The Beijing Bicycle: A Requiem
Just because China has 500 million bikes on the road or tucked away in sheds or courtyards does not mean the two-wheeler has a bright future there, especially in its largest cities. Such is the growing...
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The Collapse of Chicago Media
When the satirical humor weekly The Onion announced it was moving its editorial staff from New York to Chicago it was considered quite a coup by boosters of the Windy City. Yet the hoopla surrounding...
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Despite Obama’s Policies, The Rust Belt’s Revival Could Save His Campaign
Barack Obama’s political base always has been more “creative class” than working class—and his policies have favored that base, seeming to cater to energized issue and identity constituencies including...
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U.S. Desperately Needs a Strategy to Attract the Right Skilled Immigrants
President Obama’s recent “do it myself” immigration reform plan, predictably dissed by conservatives and nativists, reveals just how clueless the nation’s leaders are about demographics. Monday’s...
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Questioning the Messianic Conception of Smart Growth
A new analysis from the United Kingdom concludes that smart growth (compact city) policies are not inherently preferable to other urban land use policy regimes, despite the claims of proponents."The...
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Gentrification? Brixton's Angell Town Story
In the US, urban planners talk about the 'redevelopment' of a neighborhood. In the UK, 'regeneration' is heard more often. What is the difference, from both the planner and the resident perspective?...
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Religion and the City
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare. – Jeremiah 29:7 Religion is another one of those topics...
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Pakistan: Where the Population Bomb is Exploding
In much the developed, as well as developing world, population growth is slowing. Not so in Pakistan according to reported preliminary results of the 2011 Pakistan census. Here population is growing...
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Localism As An Anti-Depressant
Are we heading into a new era of local solutions? Western economists and governments usually measure the health of the job market by unemployment percentages, with unemployment defined as...
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Misreferencing Misoverestimated Population
I know the media confusion story of the past week is all about the momentary misreporting that got the story of the Supreme Court ruling backwards. Yet there was some real misoverestimating across the...
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Coney Island's Invisible Towers
When crowds thronged Coney Island for the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest on July 4th, they found a boardwalk amusement strip that was, for the umpteenth year in a row, undergoing a summer of...
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Modern Families: Fact from Fiction
I sometimes struggle with our willingness to look straight through evidence to see only what we want to see, or what we believe we should be seeing. Some recent interpretations of the Australian census...
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The Cities Where A Paycheck Stretches The Furthest
When we think of places with high salaries, big metro areas like New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco are usually the first to spring to mind. Or cities with the biggest concentrations of educated...
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