Next Up for Suburban Urbanism
Suburban urbanism is making another cameo appearance.As most followers of cities know, the lack of housing affordability in large cities, combined with the impact of the rising work-from-home...
View ArticleConversations with Dr. Pali Lehola
Dr Pali Lehohla is the director of the Economic Modelling Academy, a Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg, a Research Associate at Oxford University, a board member of Institute for...
View ArticleWhy Agriculture is the Key to California's Future in Tech
The world may see California largely as home to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, but it’s agriculture technology where we can most clearly outshine our competitors. In a new study, “Nurturing California...
View ArticleThe Luckiest Country
“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.” ~ Otto Van BismarckAmerica, the proverbial lucky fool, remains, despite itself, the world’s leading...
View ArticleWhat America's Urban Exodus Means for San Francisco
Over the past few weeks, seemingly endless stories have detailed San Francisco’s continuing troubles, with its retail core collapse and high office vacancy rates being the latest areas of serious...
View ArticleThis Rush to Electric Cars is a Colossal Mistake
We may soon regret the radical and absolutist embrace of electric vehicles (EVs). Governments across the world are planning to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars, and to take older, gas-guzzling...
View ArticleGen Z Moving Out of Cities
Remember the young people who supposedly loved cities and rejected the suburbs? It turns out they are the ones who have been fleeing the cities since the beginning of the pandemic. According to a...
View ArticleKill Off the Old City So New Cities Can Be Born
After decades of self-celebration and relentless media hype, the great “urban renaissance” predicted by the New Urbanists—a vision of cities built by and for the creative class—has come crashing down....
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Enabling Trade-Offs: Internal Migration And Australia’s Housing Opportunity
Beyond the cacophony currently surrounding the highly combustible subject of overseas migration, there is an evolving sub-plot in which the narrative reveals a less substantial, but meaningful...
View ArticleUrban Sprawl, the Environmentally Friendly Answer to Expensive Housing
From the dawn of the colonial era, Canada, the U.S., and Australia thrived by providing what the landless have always sought. In the vast expanses of these countries, the luckless masses from Britain,...
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Remote and Hybrid Work Continues Appeal in the US and Canada
Despite the continuing pressure from employers for employees to work on-site, working from home continues at a strong pace. Just released data from WFH Research indicates that 41.3% of US workers...
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Carbon Myopia
Last week, a journalist at Heatmap Daily sent out an email that began, “Nearly a year ago, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia made an emergency...
View ArticleGavin Newsom: The President Nobody Needs
For many Democrats, Gavin Newsom has become an object of desire. Aged 55, the Governor of California’s relative youth, coiffed good looks and ability to speak in something close to coherent English...
View ArticleTo Reduce Costs, California Also Needs to Build New Suburbs
The three myths that have led to this predicament are the following: Nuclear power and natural gas power causes unacceptable harm to the environment; reservoirs and desalination plants cause...
View ArticleThe New Corporatism That's Killing Capitalism
Over the years since the financial crisis, economic power and wealth has become ever more concentrated in fewer hands. This is something leaders have acknowledged, and policymakers have tried to do...
View ArticleCalifornia's Emissions Regulatory Death Spiral
I just got back from a 2-hour lunch with one of the guys who serves on working groups and committees of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District...
View ArticleNext Up for Suburban Urbanism
Suburban urbanism is making another cameo appearance.As most followers of cities know, the lack of housing affordability in large cities, combined with the impact of the rising work-from-home...
View ArticleBidenomics Isn't Working
With the announcement that inflation fell to 3% in June, the US President will no doubt be emboldened in his claim that Bidenomics — essentially a green-tinted government-led economy — is working....
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Green Jobs at Ford and GM Will Cost
Those “green” jobs you’ve been hearing about don’t come cheap.Thanks to the staggering amounts of money that’s being doled out under the Inflation Reduction Act to incentivize the production of...
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Ukes
A flurry of Ukrainian flags appeared all over San Francisco a year ago when Russia’s incremental acquisition of Ukrainian territory ramped up in earnest and turned to a hot war. It was a show of...
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