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Designing Suburbs: Beyond New Urbanism
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism called "America's Housing Crisis." The report contains several essays about the future of housing from various perspectives....
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The Effect Race Could Have on the Race
Until now, the presidential campaign largely has been dominated by issues of class, driving the improbable rise of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. But as we head toward Super Tuesday – which will...
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A Truly Historic Super Tuesday
This year’s Super Tuesday primaries will give both parties a chance to decide which of their candidates offers the best policy prescriptions to address the nation’s challenges. Surprisingly for a...
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Super Tuesday Analysis: How Race, Class And Geography Fed Trump And Clinton's...
After Tuesday night’s primary results, the presidential race is now all but settled among Democrats, and the fractured Republican field seems far along on their suicide mission to hand the White House...
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Who Plans?: Jane Jacobs’ Hayekian Critique of Urban Planning
"Cities are fantastically dynamic places, and this is strikingly true of their successful parts, which offer a fertile ground for the plans of thousands of people."– Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of...
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Now They Get It: Health, Class, and Economic Restructuring
In the past few months, many commentators have responded to a recent study that shows increasing death rates among middle-aged white Americans. Some have suggested that the increase is the consequence...
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The Great Vancouver Exodus: Why I’m Almost Ready to Leave the City
It was one of those Sundays in early January when you wake up to bright, stark sunlight streaming through your blinds.My fellow Vancouverites might know the one. It’s been grey and dreary for months....
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California Valued for Cash, Not Candidates
California may be the country’s most important and influential state for technology, culture and lifestyle, but has become something of a cipher in terms of providing national political leaders. Not...
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America’s Most Urban States
To the untrained eye, looking at a map of metropolitan America can lead one to the conclusion that at least half the nation’s land area is covered by urbanization. This is illustrated by Figure 1...
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Why Jersey City is the New Brooklyn
For hundreds of years, New York City has been viewed by Americans and foreigners alike as the default capital of the United States. Though not the official political capital city, New York, New York...
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Your City Is Not the Next Silicon Valley
“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry,” began Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president from 1901 to 1910. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the...
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What Price Urban Density?
We regularly hear the argument that living in a compact city is more affordable than living in one that is more spread out. But what does the data actually show about the cost of housing in compact...
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Suburban Sustainablity
There’s a philosophical debate about what is “sustainable.” The two dominant camps tend to advocate on behalf of either the hyper efficient dense city or bucolic rural self sufficiency. Personally, I’m...
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What Happens When Walmart Dumps You
The first knock on Walmart was that it gutted the mom-and-pop businesses of small-town America. So what happens to those towns when Walmart decides to leave?What is the future of American retail? The...
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Japan Census 2015: Decline Less than Projected
Headlines were recently made recently as Japan finally experienced a long predicted official decline in population. This is widely expected to be the beginning of a long decline in population, which...
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The Foreclosure Crisis: At the Movies
If you haven’t seen The Big Short, the movie version of Michael Lewis’s fascinating book about the explosion of the housing bubble, you should see it for the entertainment value alone. The film tells...
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Mass Transit Expansion Goes Off The Rails In Many U.S. Cities
Journalists in older cities like New York, Boston or San Francisco may see the role of rail transit as critical to a functioning modern city. In reality, rail transit has been a financial and policy...
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Rethinking America’s Cities’ Success Strategy
This piece is reprinted from a Kauffman Foundation series focusing on the role of cities in a new entrepreneurial growth agenda. Read the entire cities series here.Most cities are economically weak...
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Farewell, Grand Old Party
The increased likelihood of Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee, as evidenced by his win in Florida and other states last week, spells the end of the Republican Party as we have known it....
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Rise of the Mixed-Use Monoliths
Density rules new development. From Florida to Texas to points west, city boosters herald a mixture of apartments and shops as an improvement on local 'density'. Dense development can be well designed,...
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