A Working-Class 'Christmas Story' Christmas
If you have an extra 10 million dollars lying around, little Ralphie Parker’s house from A Christmas Story (1983), is for sale. The iconic mustard colored house, located on the outskirts of Cleveland,...
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Density and the Fertility Trap
Yesterday, Tyler Cowan mentioned in the Marginal Revolution blog that he wished books on urban areas “would spend more time discussing whether dense urban areas are simply a fertility trap.” I’m not...
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Home Building and Developing in The New Normal
In a recent YouTube video Avoid These Cities (Housing Crash 2022) EPB Research provides an analysis of the national market. In general, West Coast is bad and East Coast is OK, especially the southeast....
View ArticleWhy WFH Will Not Doom Cities
Thomas Edsall of the New York Times recently wrote a piece in which he questioned several top academics in economics and real estate on whether two outcomes of the Covid pandemic -- the Covid...
View ArticleOctober Driving Greater Than in 2019
Americans drove 0.6 percent more miles in October 2022 than the same month in 2019, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Highway Administration. This is the second month in a row and the...
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Washington, Colorado, and Oregon: The Next Domestic Outmigration Wave?
The newly published US Census Bureau state and District of Columbia population estimates contain some surprises about changing growth and net domestic migration (movement between states)...
View ArticleWhy Sen. Josh Hawley Telling Young Men to Man Up Won't Work
One of the reasons I started writing my newsletter was that I saw so many young men turning to online gurus for life advice rather than seeking direction from traditional institutions and authority...
View ArticleHijacking of Urbanism
If you’ve read this blog over the years you know that I’ve increasingly written about a general staleness in urbanist discourse. I’ve characterized it as seeing a need for new ideas in urbanism...
View ArticleInfective Maltruism
Is charity still charity when it is performed for uncharitable reasons?Looking beyond the “aw, neat, what a great person” façade of “effective altruism,” (see here, with a grain of salt…...
View ArticleThe Collapse of the Progressive Economy
In recent decades, progressive politics has been underwritten by the ascendant economic titans of capital, technology, and communication. Big Tech and financial firms have long financed Democratic...
View ArticleNorth America Has An Opportunity to Lead the World
For generations, pundits the world over have insisted that the future will be forged elsewhere — Europe for some, Japan for others and, more recently, China. Yet, in reality, the United States and...
View ArticleStill Wrong! Paul Ehrlich Interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes
CBS decided to start the new year with a 60 Minutessegment on overpopulation. That’s not really all that surprising. In recent months, many left-leaning media outlets profiled advocates of depopulation...
View ArticleCan Capitalism Save Hollywood?
After a decade of rapid growth, the nation’s media and entertainment complex is facing retrenchment and, perhaps, a necessary reappraisal. Firms are consolidating. Workers are being laid off at Disney,...
View Article2020 Urban Areas and Data Announced (United States)
The Census Bureau has announced the new urban areas, following releases that began with the 1950 release of “urbanized area” data. The population, land area and population density of the larger urban...
View ArticleA Nation of Giants Led By Pygmies
The United States today stands as a living contradiction to the ‘great man theory of history’. For the US is a great country led by small minds. In recent times, it has been ruled by a narcissistic...
View ArticleIt's Time for Region to Collect Opportunity We Left on the Table
For all the talk about how the pandemic, remote work, social distancing and other huge new developments have dislodged traditional patterns in business and life in America and created vast new...
View ArticleLet Cities Be What They Want to Be
An on-line site called the Dumber, er, I mean Intelligancer says that, for cities to survive, developers must be allowed to convert office buildings into housing.There are a lot of problems with this...
View ArticleWelcome to Austin
I'm going to make a little deviation from the bulk of the "Welcome to..." stories you see below, which mostly focus on South Side Chicago neighborhoods (the exceptions are Rosemont, in Chicago's...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: Introduction
Whatever the future holds for humanity, it is likely to take place in an urban context. Yet, as this book will demonstrate, there are many, and sometimes divergent, urban futures.This book is being...
View ArticleCalifornia Dominates Urban Area Density Rankings
The newly released Census Bureau urban area reveals all 10 or the densest urban areas are in California, as well as 39 of the densest 50, and 70 of the 100. This is an unusually large concentration for...
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