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The Ecology of Obesity
Starting in the mid-nineties, ecologically-minded Americans increasingly came to see farmers markets as a way to bring healthy foods to poor neighborhoods, support local organic agriculture, and even...
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Annual Update on World Urbanization: 2013
Tokyo continues to be the world's largest urban area with more than 37 million people, according to the recently released 9th Annual edition of Demographia World Urban Areas. Tokyo has held the top...
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Why British Prosperity is Hobbled by a Rigged Land Market
The British have the least living space per head, the most expensive office rents and the most congested infrastructure of any EU-15 country. Thanks to a rapidly growing population – the result of a...
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Will Obama Play his Aces?
With the stock market hitting new highs, and unemployment easing, albeit slightly, President Obama can now seize his moment. After spending four years blaming George W. Bush for his lousy hand, the...
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Why Inmigration Really Matters, Particularly to the Rust Belt
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s recent comment about immigration has drawn some local ire. At his annual remarks on the state of the city, the Mayor—in response to a question of how Cleveland can end...
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Does the Post Office Deliver in Today's Urban Culture?
The postal service has been ravaged by enormous deficits and massive layoffs. It will inevitably see the closing of thousands of buildings. Planners have taken notice. Countless journalists have...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Athens
Around the fifth century BCE, Athens may have been the most important city in the West. Like China's Chang'an (modern Xi'an), the "on and off" capital of China, Athens has experienced many severe "ups...
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Tokyo Dust: The Geography of Pollen
TOKYO – The weather here is turning warmer, the cherry trees are blossoming and the waiting rooms in clinics that specialize in nose and eye problems are filling up with people suffering from runny...
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Green Office Towers Cast Shadow Over Sydney
Known for her spiky hair, studded-collar and heels, Sydney’s Lord Mayor is the epitome of progressive chic. For a green activist, though, Clover Moore attracts some surprising company. Landlords owning...
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Progessives, Preservation & Prosperity
Conservatives often fret that Barack Obama is leading the nation toward socialism. In my mind, that's an insult to socialism, which, in theory, at least, seeks to uplift the lower classes through...
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Houston Rising—Why the Next Great American Cities Aren’t What You Think
America’s urban landscape is changing, but in ways not always predicted or much admired by our media, planners, and pundits. The real trend-setters of the future—judged by both population and job...
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The World's Fastest-Growing Megacities
The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it’s increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban development...
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Density Boondoggles
Is it density or migration? Venture capitalist Brad Feld weighs in: The cities that have the most movement in and out of them are the most vibrant. The densest city in the world won't be as vibrant as...
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US Suburbs Approaching Jobs-Housing Balance
Suburban areas in the US metropolitan areas with more than 1 million total regional population, once largely seen as bedroom communities, are nearing parity between jobs and resident employees. The...
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Why Cities Matter
Why Cities Matter by Stephen Um and Justin BuzzardPretty much everybody doing anything today has to be thinking about how to respond to urbanism, especially in a global but also a developed world...
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Building Authenticity: Finding Gems in Florida's Stucco Mansions
This jaded land, Florida, is the world-weary capital of architectural irony, with more tongue-in-cheek showpieces than even Las Vegas. But hidden within the MedRev McMansions, the stucco-smeared stage...
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Megacities And The Density Delusion: Why More People Doesn't Equal More Wealth
Perhaps no idea is more widely accepted among urban core theorists than the notion that higher population densities lead to more productivity and sustainable economic growth. Yet upon examination,...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Nanjing
Nanjing is one of China's most historic cities. It is one of the four great ancient capitals of the nation, along with Beijing, Chang'an (Xi'an) and Luoyang. Its name means southern capital (Nan=south,...
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Richard Florida's Federal Fantasy
Urbanist Richard Florida, in a New York Daily News op-ed, has called for President Obama to define his legacy not only by focusing on gun control, immigration and climate change, but by zeroing in on...
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CSI Switzerland: Anatomy of an iPod Theft
When my seventeen year old son was mugged this year, coming home on a late weekend tram, he lost his iPod along with his Beats headset. I felt sympathetic, but not shocked, that he had been shaken...
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