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A Volunteer Army's Attempt to Fill the New York Hurricane Response Gap
On November 6, eight days after Hurricane Sandy’s surge waters flooded the streets, I started volunteering in the Rockaways, where I stayed for much of the next three weeks.On that first day, I joined...
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America’s Baby Boom And Baby Bust Cities
At this most familial time of the year, as recent events make us hold our children even closer, we might want to consider what kinds of environments are most conducive to having offspring. Alarm bells...
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Central Banking's Hogwarts Syndrome
Central banks—the US Federal Reserve is one—come with the mystique of Oz. While the Fed fiercely denies that it is powerful enough to cure recessions with a click of the heels, there are those who...
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America the Mostly Beautiful
In the fall of 2010, as part of a book project, ex-newspaperman Bill Steigerwald retraced the route John Steinbeck took in 1960 and turned into his classic “Travels With Charley.” Steigerwald drove...
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Urban Housing: A Master Plan for the Few
How we, as a nation, find bounty and beauty in the future depends upon how we react to two trends emerging from the recent difficult period in American urbanism. The first of these trends is the...
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Is America's Future Progressive?
Progressives may be a lot less religious than conservatives, but these days they have reason to think that Providence– or Gaia — has taken on a bluish hue.From the solid re-election of President...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Bangkok
Since 2000, the Bangkok region has experienced annual population growth 2.5 times the rate of growth from 1980 to 2000. By 2010, the Bangkok region – which includes the provincial level city of Bangkok...
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“Livability” vs. Livability: The Pitfalls of Willy Wonka Urbanism
livability: (livable) fit or suitable to live in or with; “livable conditions”.“Livability” has been a buzz word in city development for some time, and for good reason, as who doesn’t want livability,...
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Demography as Destiny: The Vital American Family
Recent reports of America’s sagging birthrate ‑ the lowest since the 1920s, by some measures ‑ have sparked a much-needed debate about the future of the American family. Unfortunately, this discussion,...
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New Geography's Most Popular Pieces of 2012
Here’s a list of the most popular pieces from 2012 here at NewGeography, our fourth full calendar year. Thanks for reading and happy 2013.10. The Cities Where a Paycheck Stretches the Furthest In this...
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California’s Blue Utopia
The Progressive wing of the Democrat Party sits at the left end of their spectrum. JFK’s liberal positions would be regarded as moderate today. Progressives have a unique vision of what a blue state...
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The Drive-It-Yourself Taxi: A Smooth Ride?
Despite a corporate sponsor that paid handsomely for the naming rights, Londoners stubbornly refer to our bikesharing system as ‘Boris Bikes’, in a nod to our colourful Mayor, Boris Johnson. But what...
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California's Poor Long-term Prognosis
California's current economic recovery may be uneven at best, but things certainly look better now than the pits-of-hell period in 2008. A cautiously optimistic New York Times piece proclaimed "signs...
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The Dispersion of Financial Sector Jobs
When you think of financial services, one usually looks at iconic downtowns such as New York’s Wall Street, Montgomery Street San Francisco's or Chicago’s LaSalle Street. But since the great financial...
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Globalization: Too Many Americans Are Dropping Under the Radar
By the time I arrived in Silicon Valley in 1986 California's middle class economy was already being remade by globalization. Globalization's dramatic impact on northern California hit me square in the...
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The New Places Where America's Tech Future Is Taking Shape
Technology is reshaping our economic geography, but there’s disagreement as to how. Much of the media and pundits like Richard Florida assert that the tech revolution is bound to be centralized in the...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Kuala Lumpur
The Kuala Lumpur region of Malaysia is generally defined by the state of Selangor and two geographical enclaves (the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya), carved from the state. These...
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California's Demographic Dilemma
It's been nearly 20 years since California Gov. Pete Wilson won re-election by tying his campaign to the anti-illegal immigrant measure Proposition 187. Ads featuring grainy images of presumably young...
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How Polarization Plays Out in Washington state: Voting for President and the...
Washington may be a left coast “blue” state, but the geography of the voting well illustrates the national phenomena of intensifying polarization. The division may be among individual people, but...
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The California-China-CO2 Connection
Michael Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission, is sincere and concerned about CO2 emissions. At a recent presentation at California State University Channel Islands, he spoke...
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