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Enterprising States 2014: Re-creating Equality of Opportunity
This is the executive summary for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's 5th Annual Enterprising States report, authored annually by Praxis Strategy Group. View the interactive map with...
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New York, Legacy Cities Dominate Transit Urban Core Gains
Much attention has been given the increase in transit use in America. In context, the gains have been small, and very concentrated (see: No Fundamental Shift to Transit, Not Even a Shift). Much of the...
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Dallas: A City in Transition
I was in Dallas this recently for the New Cities Summit, so it’s a good time to post an update on the city.I don’t think many of us realize the scale to which Sunbelt mega-boomtowns like Dallas have...
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The Cities Stealing Jobs From Wall Street
When we think about American finance, the default image is of a pinstriped banker on Wall Street. But increasingly financial services is shifting away from the traditional bastions of money.In an...
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Dawn of the Age of Oligarchy: the Alliance between Government and the 1%
When our current President was elected, many progressives saw the dawning of a new epoch, a more egalitarian and more just Age of Obama. Instead we have witnessed the emergence of the Age of...
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Energy Preferences to Play Big Role in November
The November election will be played out along all the usual social memes – from gay marriage, racism and immigration to the “war against women.” But what may determine the outcome revolves around one...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Chongqing
No city in the world is so misunderstood by analysts and the press. It is commonly asserted Chongqing is the largest city in the world. In reality it barely makes the top 50, ranking 47th. Cities (Shi)...
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Urban Renewal Needs More than ‘Garden City’ Stamp to Take Root
Every few years the ideals of Ebenezer Howard’s garden city utopia are resurrected in an attempt by the UK government to create new communities, and address the country’s housing crisis. Sometimes this...
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Sterling, the Clippers, and $2B of Monopoly Money
Is there a more crooked roulette wheel than the one that spins around in the circles of professional sports? I ask in the context of the punishment meted out to Donald Sterling, the in-limbo owner of...
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Watch 220 Years of U.S. State Population Growth
Around this time of year, some of us can’t help but think of the history of this great nation. What was life like back in the days of the founding fathers, and how have they changed in the decades...
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One-party Rule is No Party in California
Forty years ago, Mexico was a one-party dictatorship under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, hobbled by slow growth, soaring inequality, endemic corruption and dead politics. California, in...
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Confessions of a Rust Belt Orphan
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Northeast OhioGo to sleep, Captain Future, in your lair of art decoYou were our pioneer of progress, but tomorrow’s been postponedGo to sleep, Captain Future,...
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Dispersing Millennials
The very centers of urban cores in many major metropolitan areas are experiencing a resurgence of residential development, including new construction in volumes not seen for decades. There is a general...
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The California Economy: When Vigor and Frailty Collide
Part one of a two-part reportCalifornia is a place of extremes. It has beaches, mountains, valleys and deserts. It has glaciers and, just a few miles away, hot, dry deserts. Some years it doesn't rain....
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The California Economy: A Strength Vs Weakness Breakdown
Part two of a two-part report. Read part 1.The problem with analyzing California's economy — or with assessing its vigor — is that there is not one California economy. Instead, we have a group of...
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There Will Be No Real Recovery Without The Middle Class
What if they gave a recovery, and the middle class were never invited? Well, that’s an experiment we are running now, and, even with the recent strengthening of the jobs market, it’s not looking very...
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Michael Lind's New Paradigm and the "End" of Social Conservatism
Michael Lind has released a new essay titled “The Coming Realignment” in The Breakthrough Journal, one of the most innovative magazines around today. He predicts that social conservatism as we know it...
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Growth, Not Redistribution the Cure for Income Inequality
Ever since the publication this spring of Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the 21st Century,” conservatives and much of the business press, such as the Financial Times, have been on a jihad to...
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Success and the City: Houston's Pro-growth Policies Producing an Urban...
David Wolff and David Hightower are driving down the partially completed Grand Parkway around Houston. The vast road, when completed, will add a third freeway loop around this booming, 600-square-mile...
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Large Urban Cores: Products of History
Urban cores are much celebrated but in reality most of the population living in functional urban cores is strongly concentrated in just a handful of major metropolitan areas in the United States. This...
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