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Is Portugal Facing a “Shortage Of Japanese"?
“So, about the slow growth/debt connection: I’ve done a quick and dirty mini-RR for the period 1950-2007 ……focusing only on the G7……and if you look at it, you see that most of the apparent relationship...
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City Leaders Are in Love With Density but Most City Dwellers Disagree
People care deeply about where they live. If you ever doubt that, remember this: they staged massive protests over a park in Istanbul. Gezi Park near Taksim Square is one of that ancient city’s most...
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Fast-Growing Mining and Oil & Gas Industries, and the Huge Number of...
The fastest-growing industry in the U.S since 2010 isn’t large or well-known. In fact, nearly half of the estimated 5,100 jobs in support activities for metal mining are located in one state: Nevada....
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Health, Happiness, and Density
The proponents of currently fashionable planning doctrines favouring density promulgate a variety of baseless assertions to support their beliefs. These doctrines, which they group under the label of...
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The Next Urban Crisis, And How We Might Be Able To Avoid It
Urban boosters are rightly proud of the progress American cities have made since their nadir in the 1970s; Harvard economist Ed Glaeser has gone so far as to proclaim “the triumph of the city.” Yet...
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Is Scandinavia Female Friendly?
Scandinavia is often hailed as the best place on the planet for women. Yet in reality --- despite being frontrunners in gender equality --- Nordic countries have not been so successful when judged by...
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Thinking Outside the Rails on Transit
To many in the transit business – that is, people who seek to profit from the development and growth of buses, trains and streetcars – Southern California is often seen as a paradise lost, a former...
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“Unblocking Constipated Planning” in New Zealand
One of the National Party’s principal objectives since coming to power in New Zealand has been to address that nation’s terribly deteriorated housing affordability problem. Deputy Prime Minister Bill...
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Cincinnati: Bridging Downtown and the Suburbs
One of the most contentious under-the-radar mayoral races heated up in Cincinnati on September 10th, with former city council representative John Cranley surging to a huge 55%-37% primary victory over...
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America's Fastest-Growing Counties: The 'Burbs Are Back
For nearly a half century, the death of suburbs and exurbs has been prophesied by pundits, urban real-estate interests and their media allies, and they ratcheted up the volume after the housing crash...
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New Report: Enterprising Cities - A Force for American Prosperity
The inaugural edition of Enterprising Cities: A Force for Prosperity that was recently released examines best practices in municipalities taking proactive measures to support job creation and economic...
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To Rebuild, the Midwest Must Face Its Real and Severe Problems
Despite well-publicized problems that earned it the nickname of the “Rust Belt”, on paper the Midwest possesses some formidable strengths. These include the largest concentration of engineers in...
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Is America Flying Europe's Flag?
Consider the recent government shutdown as a disagreement about how much influence Europe should have on the continuing American revolution. Who would have predicted that, more than 237 years after the...
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The Dutch Rethink the Welfare State
When the Netherlands’ newly coronated king made his first annual appearance before parliament, he turned some heads when he addressed the deficiencies of the Dutch welfare state. “Due to social...
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L.A. Ports Face Challenge from Gulf Coast
In this strange era of self-congratulation in California, it may be seen as poor manners to point out tectonic shifts that could leave the state and, particularly, Southern California, more...
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Density, Unpacked: Is Creative Class Theory a Front for Real Estate Greed?
“The heresy of heresies was common sense”—George OrwellThe stories we tell affect the lives we lead. I do not mean to be abstract here. I mean, literally, the stories that are told make up a kind of...
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American Cities May Have Hit 'Peak Office'
Despite some hype and a few regional exceptions, the construction of office towers and suburban office parks has not made a significant resurgence in the current recovery. After a century in which...
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Playing Musical Chairs with World Economies
The world’s largest economies seem engaged in something like the children’s game of “musical chairs.” For years, the United States has been the world’s largest national economy, though in recent...
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The Tough Realities Facing Smaller Post-Industrial Cities
A couple weeks ago the Economist ran a leader and an article on the plight of smaller post-industrial cities, noting that these days the worst urban decay is found not in big cities but in small ones....
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Long Island's Flawed Housing Policy is the Real Brain Drain
Affordable housing is Long Island's greatest regional failure and the key to our success in the 21st century. Yet, for such an important topic, there is still a fundamental lack of understanding of the...
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