Why Suburbia Will Decide the Future
Welcome to the future of American politics. The US population is changing in major ways that will likely alter the balance in politics and economics to the advantage of Republican-leaning red states,...
View ArticleTransit's Existential Crisis
In November 2020, a report from McKinsey & Co. to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority predicted that transit ridership would recover to as high as 92 percent of pre-pandemic levels...
View ArticleThe Democrats' New Climate BIll Abandons Green Zealotry
The Senate has passed the Democrats' mega climate, health care and taxation bill along party lines and after much griping from Republicans."The Green New Deal Democrats are coming straight after...
View ArticleMigratory Millennials - Marching from the Metropolis
As stories of new migration patterns and movement across Australia’s cities and regions abound, updated population data shows that what initially appeared to be a pandemic-induced blip is instead the...
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Population and Fertility to 2100: 10 Largest Nations
The recently released United Nations World Population Prospects: 2022 forecasts a future with fewer people in 2100 than there were in 2000. This has not happened for a very long time. Under the medium...
View ArticleWhy Cities Are Important to the Church's Mission
Cities are important for the church’s mission because, increasingly, that’s where the people are. Until very recently, humanity lived almost exclusively in villages or rural environments. As recently...
View ArticleNewsom is Like Biden
California Governor Newsom is pondering a run at the Presidency. To reduce emissions at any cost, both he and President Biden are oblivious to the fact that breezes and sunshine can only generate...
View ArticleThe Importance of Fare Enforcement
According to the New York City police department, subway crime is up 53 percent so far in 2022 compared with 2021. Since ridership grew by 64 percent in that time period, that means that crime rates...
View ArticleIrvine: A National Role Model
Irvine provides a solution for transportation, energy and diversity issues bedeviling the country. The master-planned city represents the modern version of a 19th-century garden city – a largely...
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Homeowner’s Greatest Property Right is Single-Family Zoning
Some Confuse a Homeowner’s Greatest Property Right With How Many Uses the Homeowner can Utilize for Their HomeA homeowner’s greatest property right is not how many uses a homeowner can use their home,...
View ArticleHow Managerial Aesthetics Explain Why Cities Can't Authentically Market...
Have you ever noticed that there’s nothing more generic than a “local” coffee shop? As Orianna Schwindt wrote for New York magazine about the unbearable sameness of cities:I was in a non-chain coffee...
View ArticleTim Allen Loves It Here, and He's Always Happy to Show It
Tim Allen is a Hollywood celebrity, but he’s the rare one who hasn’t abandoned his roots in favor of the glitz. And that has been a good thing for Flyover Country.The comic actor and funnyman — well...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Future
We are entering an unanticipated reality—an era of slow population growth and, increasingly, demographic decline that will shape our future in profound and unpredictable ways. Globally, last year’s...
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Total Fertility Rate: Metros — San Francisco (Lowest) to Jacksonville (Highest)
As we previously reported, US total fertility rates have dropped markedly since 2010. The total fertility rate (TFR) is “the expected number of lifetime births per woman women given current birth rates...
View ArticleAmerica Has An Oedipus Complex
As in Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus Rex, we are witnessing a generational drama in which inheritors kill their proverbial father to marry their mother, in this case Mother Earth. The psychology behind...
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Collapse or Evolution?
An article in Salon by anti-capitalist Chris Hedges argues that our civilization is on the verge of collapse. As evidence, he points to the 65 percent decline of the population of St. Louis since...
View ArticleInflation Reduction Act Will Hinder EV Growth
After his mandate to transition to electric vehicles (EVs), President Joe Biden then signed The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that requires EVs to contain a battery pack and other parts built in North...
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Our On Again, Off Again, Infrastructure Future
Over a long summer weekend a group of the usual suspects got together and rented a cabin in the Sierra foothills about three hours east of San Francisco. It was an idyllic landscape of modest homes...
View ArticleRent Forever and Love It
Housing is an industry, but it is also where people live, raise families, and stake their future. Yet increasingly, all around the world, housing has increasingly become just a commodity to be traded,...
View ArticleThe Connection: Housing Affordability and Inequality
Canada’s housing affordability crisis is a matter of considerable concern especially for young people trying to buy a house. The worst problems are in the Vancouver and Toronto markets with their...
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