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Massive Shift from Urban Cores to Suburbs and Elsewhere
Moving Away from the Major Metros: The recent Census Bureau population estimates release revealed a massive shift of domestic migrants away from the major metropolitan areas (the 56 with more than...
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Is It Safe to Ride Transit?
Less than half of New York City residents feel safe riding the subway today, down from 82 percent before the pandemic. Subway crime is so bad that New York’s governor called out the national guard to...
View ArticleDigital Divide: Bridging the Urban-Rural Connectivity Gap
If you live in an urban area, you may mistakenly believe that everyone has access to reliable Wi-Fi, personal computers, and cellular networks. However, millions of rural Americans live without these...
View ArticleNew Report: El Futuro es Latino
This newly released report covers the challenges and successes of Latinos, their history in California, and present day role in the economy. Soledad Ursúa is the principal researcher for this project;...
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Hydrogen or Synthetic Fossil Fuels?
Every few years within the energy sector, a new 'entrepreneur' emerges with a supposedly 'revolutionary' idea that often turns out to be nothing more than a repackaging of an old concept that failed to...
View ArticleCalifornia's Broken Diversity Promise
Few states are more ostentatious in their concern for racial equality and minority uplift than California. The Golden State leads the nation in promoting racial reparations, doggedly supports...
View ArticleSometimes Comical; Sometimes Tragic
On the last working day before the Holidays the OMB of the White House announced a notice of decision regarding the statistical treatment of race and ethnicity topics in all government statistical...
View ArticleCalifornia Is the Homeland of Progressive Anti-Semitism
One 19th century Gentile described California as “the Jews’ earthly paradise”. It is paradise no longer. Reports of attacks on Jewish businesses, homes and institutions are becoming ever more...
View ArticleInterest in Democratic Valueo is High Outside Urban Cores
With the COVID-19 pandemic declared over, a significant question for politicians, planners, and pundits alike is what to do with city centers and old urban cores after the pandemic pushed many...
View ArticleGavin Newsom's Futile Bid to Trump-Proof California
Never one to miss an opportunity for posturing, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced plans to “Trump-proof” the state if the former president wins later this year. Newsom is particularly...
View ArticleEngines of Opportunity
Colleges, universities, and academic medical centers play a vital role as engines of learning, innovation, prosperity, and opportunity in America’s cities. But they face growing tectonic stresses:...
View ArticleAgressive Canadian Progressivism is Descending the Country into Crazy
Like most Americans, I always tended to believe Canada was our more sensible, if less intense, neighbour. It was a country that respected liberal traditions derived originally from England, embracing...
View ArticleEmpty or Illicit? NYC Shops for a Solution
New York City, like many urban areas, has suffered vacant storefronts in recent years. The causes are likely many: online shopping, property crime, difficulty in hiring low-wage staff or paying the...
View ArticleMean Girls Rising
Once the putative party of the people, the Democrats are increasingly the party of political “Mean Girls.” Epitomized by the congressional “Squad,” radicalized women are driving the party ever further...
View ArticlePlanners Push Transit, But It's a Hard Sell in Western Cities
Over the six decades that transit subsidies have been virtually universal, governments and media have urged people to give up driving and switch to transit. Yet transit’s share of total urban travel...
View ArticleBeyond the Two State Solution
The Two State Solution to end the Gaza/Israeli War is dead for a simple reason. There no longer is a “state” in Gaza. The tunnels have largely been destroyed with explosives. When the tunnels...
View ArticleTesla In Turmoil: The EV Meltdown In 10 Charts
In 2014, Tony Seba, an author and lecturer in “entrepreneurship, disruption, and clean energy” at Stanford University, declared, “By 2025, gasoline engine cars will be unable to compete with electric...
View ArticleThe Strange Death of the Family
Over a decade ago, I led a team of Singapore-based researchers to investigate why families were declining. Back then, we were experiencing a historic shift away from population growth and familial...
View ArticleBig Beats Small, New Beats Old
I came across a couple of interesting pieces in the last week that had me thinking about the past, present and future of American cities again. After reading them, I felt somewhat upbeat and validated,...
View ArticleWhy London is Beating American Cities
As America’s cities continue to decline, as even ardent boosters warn of “an urban doom loop”, how does London remain a global powerhouse? The straightforward answer is that it retains an old...
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