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Time to Acknowledge Falling Private Car Use
The prospect of falling car use now needs to be firmly factored into planning for western cities. That may come as a bit of a surprise in light of the preoccupation with city plans that aim to get...
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California Becoming Less Family-Friendly
For all of human history, family has underpinned the rise, and decline, of nations. This may also prove true for the United States, as demographics, economics and policies divide the nation into what...
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This is Your Government on Crack
Forget about a fiscal cliff or the threat of sequestrations. Bernanke’s use of the term “cliff” in 2012 is based on the erroneous analogy that fiscal policy had been moving along some level road for a...
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Blue States Double Down On Suicide Strategy
Whatever President Obama proposes in his State of the Union for the economy, it is likely to fall victim to the predictable Washington gridlock. But a far more significant economic policy debate in...
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America's Oldest Cities
One of the most important turning points in the social history of the United States occurred at the beginning of the 1940s. This is not about Pearl Harbor or the Second World War, but rather about the...
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That Sucking Sound You Hear…Solutions to America’s Housing Crisis Are Needed
There is a crisis in America that’s not being attended to. It is the housing crisis, and its tentacles reach deep into the decline of the American middle class. Particularly, the interlocking dynamics...
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Natural Gas Boom: The “Janus” Effect
The last five years have seen a revolution in terms of the amount of inexpensive U.S. natural gas made available for consumption in power plants, road fuels, and as a feedstock for new and expanded...
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U.S. Late to the Party on Latin America, Africa
President Barack Obama's proposed tilt of U.S. priorities toward the Pacific – and away from the historical link to Europe – represents one of the most encouraging aspects of his foreign policy....
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How We Should Navigate the Florida Archipelago
Leafy, timeless rural routes and monotonous, flat highways have characterized Florida’s network of state roads since the early 20th century. Vacationers in the Sunshine State either stick to the...
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Transit Legacy Cities
Transit's greatest potential to attract drivers from cars is the work trip. But an analysis of US transit work trip destinations indicates that this applies in large part to just a few destinations...
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Is the Family Finished?
Sitting around a table at a hookah bar in New York’s East Village with three women and a gay man, all of them in their 20s and 30s and all resolved to remain childless, a few things quickly became...
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Failing Economies Shorten Lives
A recent study has come up with some shocking news: life expectancy of the least educated white Americans, both men and women, is going down. White women without a high school diploma now live five...
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Why The Red States Will Profit Most From More U.S. Immigration
In recent years, the debate over immigration has been portrayed in large part as a battle between immigrant-tolerant blue states and regions and their less welcoming red counterparts. Yet increasingly,...
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In California, Don't Bash the 'Burbs
For the past century, California, particularly Southern California, nurtured and invented the suburban dream. The sun-drenched single-family house, often with a pool, on a tree-lined street was an...
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America's Growth Corridors: The Key to a National Revival - A New Report
In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, some political commentators have written political obituaries of the "red" or conservative-leaning states, envisioning a brave new world dominated by...
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Gentrification and its Discontents: Cleveland Needs to Go Beyond Being...
“Indeed, we have the know-how, but we do not have the know-why, nor the know-what-for”—Erich Fromm, social psychologist.The question of how you “become” as a city has been weighing on me lately. Is it...
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Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans
Readers of this forum have probably heard rumors of gentrification in post-Katrina New Orleans. Residential shifts playing out in the Crescent City share many commonalities with those elsewhere, but...
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The Beauty of Urban Planning from the Ground
In a piece called The Beauty of Urban Planning from Space, the Sustainable Cities Collective highlights views from space of uniquely designed street pattern designs in various cities around the world....
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Disney Stops Thinking About Tomorrow
Walt Disney's first version of Tomorrowland came to life in 1955. The attractions were geared towards the space age, and towards the future of transportation that Disney believed scientists of his time...
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The Age of Bernanke
To many presidential idolaters, this era will be known as the Age of Obama. But, in reality, we live in what may best be called the Age of Bernanke. Essentially, Obamaism increasingly serves as a front...
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