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Prairie Populism Goes Bust As Obama’s Democrats Lose The Empty Quarter
Along Phillips Avenue, the main street of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the local theater’s marquee is a tribute to the late Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern, who was buried last...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Addis Abeba
Addis Abeba is the capital of Ethiopia and calls itself the "diplomatic capital" of Africa, by virtue of the fact that the African Union is located here. Yet Ethiopia is still one of the most rural...
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Why Obama Won: Hispanics, Millenials Were The Difference
President Obama won re-election primarily because he did so well with two key, and expanding, constituencies: Hispanics and members of the Millennial Generation. Throughout the campaign, Democratic...
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A Racially Polarized Election Augurs Ill for Barack Obama’s Second Term
President Obama, the man many saw as curing the country’s “scar of race,” won a second term in the most racially polarized election in decades. Overall, the Romney campaign relied almost entirely on...
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The Biggest Winners From President Obama's Re-Election: Crony Capitalists
President Obama’s re-election does not, as some conservatives suggest, represent a triumph of socialism. Instead, it marks the massive endorsement of an expanding crony capitalism that ultimately could...
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The Biggest Losers In The 2012 Elections: Entrepreneurs
Who lost the most in economic terms Tuesday? Certainly energy companies now face a potentially implacable foe — and a re-energized, increasingly hostile bureaucratic apparat. But it’s not them. Nor was...
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Why it's All About Ohio: The Five Nations of American Politics
Looking at Tuesday’s election results, it’s clear the United States has morphed into five distinct political nations. This marks a sharp consolidation of the nine cultural and economic regions that...
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America’s Most Competitive Metros Since 2010
The San Jose metro is adding jobs at a faster clip than any other large metro area in the U.S. since the recession. Houston, Austin, Detroit — and a handful of other metros — have also been stellar...
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What Stifles Good Housing Development?
We can't afford outmoded attitudes in housing development anymore - not as businesses, not as citizens and certainly not as development professionals. As development consultants, we're often asked to...
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The New York Marathon Vs the NFL
The ING New York City Marathon was cancelled, but the football game of the New York Giants against the Pittsburgh Steelers went ahead. Why? The nation places a higher value on sedentary spectators...
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A Housing Preference Sea Change? Not in California
For some time, many in the urban planning community have been proclaiming a "sea-change" in household preferences away from suburban housing in the United States. Perhaps no one is more identified with...
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For A Preview Of Obama's America In 2016, Look At The Crack-Up Of California
Conservatives of the paranoid stripe flocked to the documentary “America: 2016” during the run up to the election, but you don’t have to time travel to catch a vision of President Obama’s plans for the...
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The Emerging Professional, Scientific, and Technical Sector
Although the professional, scientific, and technical industry sector makes up only 6% of the U.S. workforce, it was responsible for 10% of national job growth from 2010 to 2012. In addition, the broad...
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The Rise of the Third Coast
In the wilds of Louisiana’s St. James Parish, amid the alligators and sugar plantations, Lester Hart is building the $750 million steel plant of his dreams. Over the past decade, Hart has constructed...
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Petraeus's Turf: The South Tampa Scene
Bimbo eruptions are never fortunate occurrences, least of all for the bimbos involved. When they occur in South Tampa, they carry the sordid spectacles to new frontiers. A gentle but feisty cultural...
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Review: Driving Detroit, The Quest for Respect in the Motor City
For more than a century, the city of Detroit has been an ideological and at times actual battleground for decidedly different views about the economy, labor and the role of government. At one time it...
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Faking It: The Happy Messaging of Placemaking
Picasso said “Art is a lie that tells the truth”. Nowadays, there’s less truth to that, as the creative process is increasingly about prettying up and papering over what’s broke.More on that shortly,...
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What is a Half-Urban World?
Within the last couple of years, the population of the world has become more than one half urban for the first time in history. By 2025, the world's urban areas are expected to account for 58% of the...
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Detroit: America's Whipping Boy Needs a Second Chance
Every so often, Detroit seems to pop up in our popular consciousness in a negative way. Ever since the ’67 riots, a steady stream of bad press has altered the national perception of the Motor City....
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Off the Rails: How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of Plutocrats
For a century now, Republicans have confused being the party of plutocrats with being the party of prosperity. Thus Mitt Romney.To win back the so-called 47 percent—an insulting description Romney...
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