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Need Your Water Treated? In the Philippines, Call a Mom & Pop Shop
“The history of cities can be described as the history of water.” — UK Urbanist Matthew Gandy, 2003 In Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines, that particular history is being rewritten...
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Anorexic Vampires and the Pittsburgh Potty: The Story of Rust Belt Chic
“Rust Belt Chic is the opposite of Creative Class Chic. The latter [is] the globalization of hip and cool. Wondering how Pittsburgh can be more like Austin is an absurd enterprise and, ultimately,...
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New Setbacks for the Beleaguered California Bullet Train
A proposal by Senator Michael Rubio (SB 317) to loosen California's landmark environmental protection law commonly known as CEQA, has been shelved. The proposed legislation was intended to exempt the...
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Evolving Urban Form: São Paulo
São Paulo is Brazil's largest urban area and ranks among the top 10 most populous in the world. Between 1950 and 1975, São Paulo was also among the globe’s fastest growing urban areas. For two decades...
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The Unseen Class War That Could Decide The Presidential Election
Much is said about class warfare in contemporary America, and there’s justifiable anger at the impoverishment of much of the middle and working classes. The Pew Research Center recently dubbed the...
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Livable China
Recently, the McKinsey Global Institute published its report 'The Most Dynamic Cities in 2025' in Foreign Policy, a highly respected US journal. On this list, 27 mainland Chinese cities as well as Hong...
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Travel Bans: Do No-Go Lists Fight Freedom?
Had the 1789 constitutional amendments protected travel alongside the rights to freedom of the press, religion, and assembly, the United States might be a less xenophobic country. It might be less...
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The Creative Destruction of Creative Class-ification
Bits and pieces of ideal cities have been incorporated into real ones; traffic projects and housing schemes are habitually introduced by their sponsors as at least preliminary steps to paradise. The...
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Obama Fuel Economy Rules Trump Smart Growth
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just finalized its regulation requiring that new cars and light trucks (light vehicles) achieve average fuel efficiency of 54.5 miles per gallon (MPG) by...
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Barack Obama’s New Chicago Politics Abandon Bill Clinton’s Winning Coalition
While the Democratic convention this week celebrates the party’s new coalition, Bill Clinton will no doubt try to recapture the white middle class that’s largely deserted the Democrats since his...
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The Growing Number of Freelancers in Entertainment
When people were preparing eulogies for the entertainment sector, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick popped out with his bold piece, “The Sky is Rising,” and poked holes in the gloomy forecast. His scrutiny of...
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Carmel, IN Named Best Small City in America to Live In But Can Others Follow?
Money Magazine just named the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel as the top small city in America to live in. Fishers, another Indianapolis suburb, ranked #12. Any ranking survey, and particularly one done...
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Brewster and Me: Photo Essay Exploring One of Detroit's Notorious Abandoned...
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Brewster-Douglass housing projects of Detroit Michigan and there is nothing to celebrate. More accurately, there is no one to celebrate. For several...
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The State of Economy in the Swing States
I was living in Pennsylvania, voting in my second presidential election when my mom asked me that question in the months leading up to Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Zürich
Zürich is the largest urban area in Switzerland. The core city (stadt) of Zürich is located at the northern end of Lake Zürich, which is glacial and similar to the "finger lakes" of upstate New York....
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The End of the Road for Eds and Meds
In the last few decades, as suburbanization and deindustrialization devastated so many cities, they turned to two sectors that seemed not only immune to decline, but were actually growing: universities...
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The Answer Is Urban Consolidation – What Was The Question?
The New Zealand Green Party is perpetuating the claim that development beyond Auckland’s “city limits” imposes a high cost on ratepayers. A spokesperson claims that the current Auckland plan, which...
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The Changing Geography of Asian America: To The South And The Suburbs
“There’s nothing wrong with New York that a million Chinese couldn’t cure,” the urban geographer George Sternlieb once quipped. It may be an exaggeration, but rising Asian immigration has indeed been a...
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The Rise of Telework and What it Means
Teleworking (also known as telecommuting) has taken flight as a global trend. During July of 2002, European Union collectively decided on a shared framework agreement on telework, which regulates...
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2011 Census Sub-County Allocations Masquerade as Population Estimates
This is by far the most difficult article I have ever had to write. I have been a fan of the US Bureau of the Census since I began following its numbers in the second grade. Much of my career has been...
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