The End of the Silicon Valley Dream
It is difficult, given what Silicon Valley has become, to convey exactly what it was like in the 1970s and ‘80s. It was a remarkable center of technology, but also the embodiment of the spirit of...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: Utah and Salt Lake City Policy Innovations in...
The proper size of government permeates public policy discussions about homelessness, poverty, and health care. The left and right debate varying degrees of government involvement, typically failing to...
View ArticleThings Are Different Downtown
We are entering a new urban epoch, with the potential to disrupt city life in ways not unlike that created in the shift from an industrial to what Jean Gottman described in 1983 as the “transactional...
View ArticleThe Nation Needs Newsom vs. DeSantis
For all the tumult of today, we as a nation are merely dithering around the edges of the most critical question of our times – do we stop or go?Does America go down the path of cultural least...
View ArticleThe Inhumanity of the Green Agenda
‘Man is the measure of all things’, Greek philosopher Protagoras wrote over 2,500 years ago. Unfortunately, our elites today tend not to see it that way.In recent years, the overused word...
View ArticleClass Ceilings
Most of us have stopped believing in the myth of the meritocracy. The myth promises that the ablest or most intelligent or hardest working get ahead of the rest. Most everyone realizes this is not...
View ArticleSavior of the City of Angels
The death last week of former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan is a reminder of both how low the city’s political culture has sunk and how strong leaders can help turn around a seemingly hopeless...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: Next Generation Suburbs
Whether hundreds of years ago or today, the far-reaching environmental impacts of urbanization are because cities are “a node of pure consumption existing parasitically on an extensive external...
View ArticleWisconsin Town Fights Big Solar
When I arrived at the Christiana Town Hall yesterday afternoon, Mark A. Cook, the town chairman, and two local landowners, John Barnes, and Roxann Engelstad, were ready and waiting. They had multiple...
View ArticleNinth Circuit Spikes Berkeley's Gas Ban
Three federal court judges just rescued your gas stove and other gas-fired appliances from the nanny state.Yesterday, in a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that...
View ArticleHow Not to Revitalize Downtown
The city of Portland announced yesterday that it received a $2 million federal grant to get it to ban gasoline (and, presumably, Diesel) delivery vehicles in a sixteen-block area of downtown Portland....
View ArticleCareer Considerations for Remote Work
Remote work has become a huge topic of conversation in the business and political world since the pandemic shutdowns. The shift to remote that the pandemic response precipitated has upended many of the...
View ArticleFord is Losing $66,446 On Every EV It Sells
In March, Ford Motor Company announced that it lost $2.1 billion on its EV business last year. Those losses were double the losses it had on EVs in 2021. As I noted in a video I posted on TikTok on...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: Conclusion
Over five millennia, through pestilence, war, economic dislocation, and mass migrations, cities have demonstrated their essential resiliency. Yet at the same time, they have many times been...
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Understanding Neighborhoods and Architecture as Foundation of Understanding...
Cities evolve by either expanding, deteriorating, tearing down or preserving. Some cities like Dallas have vast vacant land and other cities have little undeveloped land. Whether a city is expanding or...
View ArticleWhat Really Divides America
For almost a decade, the West has been engaged in a deepening conflict. Sometimes it flares up as a political debate; sometimes as a culture war. But whatever form it takes, it is inevitably framed as...
View ArticleLos Angeles Slips Below 2010 Population: New State of California Estimates
The state Department of Finance (DOF) has reported, in its official population estimates, that California continued to lose population during calendar year 2022, with a population of 39,840,000 on...
View ArticleThe Twilight of the Anglosphere
The pomp and ceremony of this weekend’s coronation of King Charles III could not hide the fact that Britain, once the most powerful nation on Earth, has become slightly dysfunctional and even a bit...
View ArticleWhy Do You Want To Be An Urbanist?
I’ve always believed that the way you find your path to a certain direction in life determines quite a bit to your approach once on the path. Like a kid who was bullied by classmates becomes a boxer or...
View ArticleFred Siegel's Legacy
Fred Siegel’s passing this weekend represented a huge loss not just for me personally but, more importantly, for all those concerned with the future of the United States, and particularly its cities....
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