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California’s Demographic Dilemma: A Class And Culture Clash
The newly released Census reports reveal that California faces a profound gap between the cities where people are moving to and the cities that hold all the political power. It is a tale that divides...
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Are Chinese Ready to Rent?
In 2010 “House price” ranked third on the list of the top 10 most popular phrases used by Chinese netizens. It came to no one's surprise. In most Chinese cities housing prices have increased...
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What kind of Cities do we Want, Sustainable, Liveable or Resilient?
A critical issue from the dreadful earthquake that has severely damaged so much of central Christchurch, taken so many lives, and terrified so many residents of the whole urban area, lies in whether...
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Perspectives on Urban Cores and Suburbs
Our virtually instant analysis of 2000 census trends in metropolitan areas has the generated wide interest. The principal purpose is to chronicle the change in metropolitan area population and the...
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Why North Dakota Is Booming
Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated by the state's...
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Asthma: The Geography of Wheezing
Are you familiar with the Hygiene Hypothesis? The HH — or, as some of us call it, the “pound of dirt theory” — is grabbing attention again. A minor medical press feeding frenzy followed the publication...
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Why We Can’t Shun Manufacturing for the Service Sector
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the shift in the US economy away from production and increasingly into services. Consider the employment data from the US: In 1950, 30% of all US jobs were in...
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Energy Policy Reset: Forget Nuclear Reactors and Mideast Oil
The two largest crises today — the Japanese nuclear disaster and the widening unrest in the Middle East — prove it’s time to de-fetishize energy policy. These serious problems also demonstrate why we...
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Actually, Cities are Part of the Economy
“The prosperity of our economy and communities is dependent on the political structures and mechanisms used to manage and coordinate our economic systems.” No politician expecting to be taken seriously...
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The High Speed Rail Battle of Britain
A high speed rail battle is brewing in Great Britain, not unlike the controversies that have lit up the political switchboard in the United States over the past six months. The Department for Transport...
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Appalatin: A Perfect Rhythm Falling Into Place
Nesting in Louisville since 2006, slowly taking its time to form and blossom, Appalatin is six working professionals who haven't quit their day jobs -- two native Kentuckians and four immigrant...
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Pollution: An Off – Road Guide to Environmental Hot Spots
Not all pollutants are created equal, nor do they necessarily hang out in the same hot spots. Rankings of the most polluted cities — you know who you are — have become depressingly familiar. But those...
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The Deconstruction of Barack Obama
The first two years of the Obama Administration have been historic and eventful. The first openly liberal president in a generation has dramatically increased government spending and intervention in...
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NY Borough to Borough Commute? Fuhgeddaboudit
As the country’s largest and densest metropolis, New York City has been able to offer a level of public transit service that most other cities can only dream about. Commuting to Downtown or Midtown...
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Census 2010 Offers Portrait of America in Transition
The Census Bureau just finished releasing all of the state redistricting file information from the 2010 Census, giving us a now complete portrait of population change for the entire country....
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Vietnam, No Longer an Underdeveloped Country
The most recent estimates for 2010 indicate that Vietnam is no longer among the underdeveloped countries of the world and has moved onto the ranks of middle-income countries. Financial remittances –...
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The Accelerating Suburbanization of New York
Some of the best evidence that the tide has not turned against dispersion and suburbanization comes from an unlikely source: New York’s 2010 census results. If dense urbanism works anywhere in...
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Hanoi’s Underground Capitalism
Along the pitted elegance of Pho Ngo Quyen, a bustling street in Hanoi, Vietnam, you will, predictably, find uniformed men in Soviet-style uniforms, banners with Communist Party slogans, and...
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Fifty Years of Population Change in the US: 1960-2010
A new census leads us to ask how population has changed, but usually discussion is focused on changes since the last census. But even more interesting is to appreciate the vaster changes over a greater...
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Are We Unraveling?
Is the fabric of society unraveling? That’s been a fear expressed throughout our history, and sometimes it has even been true (the Civil War comes to mind ). But our divisions have always healed over...
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