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Losing the Narrative of Their Lives
A study released a few weeks ago, conducted by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, documented a significant increase in the death rate among the white working class in the US, much of it due to suicide and...
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2010-2012: More Modest Dispersion Within Metropolitan Areas
American cities seemed to be re-centralizing in the years immediately following the Great Recession, but new American Community Survey data indicates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Americans...
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Black Friday: Scenes From A Mall
It’s Black Friday and I thought I’d do something out of character for me, but entirely in keeping with the season. I went to a shopping mall. For those of you not used to the customs of the United...
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Can GOP Fatten Up Around the Middle?
At a recent breakfast in Washington, D.C., a rising young Republican senator explained the divisions in his party in a particularly succinct manner: a conflict between the donor base and the GOP...
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Florida's Interstate-Adjacent Fantasy
As 2015 wanes, many swimming in Florida’s new wave of growth are still being carried by a swift current. Everywhere one gazes, new apartments can be seen that accommodate some of the million-plus new...
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Our Anemic Suburbs: Every Urban Area Needs its Outskirts — and New York...
New York City has prospered since the great recession of 2008, buoyed by an endless supply of free money from Washington that's elevated the stock and real estate markets. But the broader metro region...
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The Fall of Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel, a man of obvious talent, drive, and leadership capacity, should have been an ideal person to run a big city like Chicago. Unfortunately, because of his stubborn unwillingness to admit and...
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The Cities Doing The Most To Address The U.S. Housing Shortage
America is suffering from the severest undersupply of housing since the end of the Second World War. Although population growth has slowed significantly since the 1950s and 1960s, production has slowed...
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The New Masters of the Universe
Every age produces its own brand of oligarchs – feudal lords, banking gnomes, captains of industry. Our age has its own incipient ruling class, the tech oligarchs.The ascendency of these new hegemons...
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People Rather than Places, Ends Rather than Means: LSE Economists on Urban...
“People rather than places” should be the focus of urban policy, according to Urban Economics and Urban Policy: Challenging Conventional Policy Wisdom. (paperback, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015...
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San Francisco With 200,000 More People — Would we be Better Off?
You want something truly scary? Take a look at these mockups of what San Francisco might look like if we build all the housing that the developers say we need.According to writer Greg Ferenstein,The...
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Seeing the West as Worse
“Hey-hey, ho-ho, Western culture’s got to go.– Slogan from 1988 Stanford University protest led by Jesse Jackson.In the aftermath of San Bernardino and Paris massacres, our cognitive leaders – from...
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Declining Population Growth in China’s Largest Municipalities: 2010-2014
After three decades of breakneck urban growth, there are indications of a significant slowdown in the largest cities of China. This is indicated by a review of 2014 population estimates in the annual...
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In One Chart: Achieving the Demographic Dividend
The experience of China provides a useful policy template for countries with booming populations in south and southeast Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa. The Chinese boom showed that a growing...
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What Does It Mean to Bring Buffalo Back?
Prior to the holidays City Journal published my major essay on Buffalo in their fall issue. Here’s an excerpt:Local planner Chuck Banas observes that while Buffalo’s regional population today is...
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My Other Bicycle Is An Airbus A380
I could be a pompous prick and brag about how I live in a compact, walkable, mixed use, transit served neighborhood in a seven hundred square foot apartment. My commute to work is measured in blocks...
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What the Midwest can learn from the Middle East
Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly the pit stop of choice for an impressive laundry list of major companies? How is it positioned among the growing number of Middle-Eastern industrial free zones? And should...
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The End of Localism
This could be how our experiment with grassroots democracy finally ends. World leaders—the super-rich, their pet nonprofits, their media boosters, and their allies in the global apparat—gather in Paris...
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Urban Residents Aren’t Abandoning Buses; Buses Are Abandoning Them
“Pity the poor city bus,” writes Jacob Anbinder in an interesting essay at The Century Foundation’s website. Anbinder brings some of his own data to a finding that’s been bouncing around the web for a...
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New Report: Building Cities for People
This is the introduction to a new report: “Building Cities for People” published by the Center for Demographics and Policy. The report was authored by Joel Kotkin with help from Wendell Cox, Mark...
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