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Empire State Building Toward Wins for Trump, Hillary
New Yorkers like to think of themselves as ahead of the curve but, this year, they seem to be embracing the most regressive politics. The overwhelming favorite in Tuesday’s primary among Republican...
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Class and the EU referendum
On June 23rd, voters in the UK get a say on whether to remain in the European Union (EU). The UK first joined what was then called the European Economic Community (EEC) back in 1973, and in a 1975...
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Millennial Home Ownership: Disappointment Ahead in Some Places?
Millennial renters overwhelmingly plan on buying their own homes, though affording them could be far more challenging than they think. This is an important conclusion from a renters’ survey by...
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Would Reaganomics Work Today?
The key drivers that propelled the Reagan economy are now tapped out or out of favor.The name of Ronald Reagan is frequently evoked by the current contenders to the GOP nomination. Donald Trump speaks...
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Coastal California Getting Older, Not Bolder
For the better part of a century, Southern California has been seen as the land of surfers, hipsters and youthful innovators. Yet the land of sun and sea is becoming, like its East Coast counterpart...
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Where Millionaires Are Moving
In this oligarchic era, dominated as never before in modern history by the ultra-rich, their movements are far more than grist for gossip columns. They are critical to the health of city economies...
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Paris: Are the Banlieues Still Burning?
Press coverage of the recent European violence often draws a line from the Arab slums around Paris to the violence that has recently engulfed Brussels and Paris. According to this theory, Arab refugees...
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There Are No Writers Here
I’ve long noted that the civic identity or culture of many places seems to be a cipher. What is our identity as a city? is a question frequently asked. And one that needs to be. Cities will succeed...
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America's Subway: America's Embarrassment?
Washington's Metro (subway), often called "America's subway," may well be America's embarrassment. As a feature article by Robert McCartney and Paul Duggan in the Washington Post put it: “'America’s...
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DIY Urbanism
Over the years I’ve belonged to a variety of different organizations that had the ostensible goal of accomplishing X or Y. At a certain point I would realize that all anyone was doing was exercising...
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Confronting the Inevitability of Hillary
With her massive win last month in New York, followed up with several other triumphal processions through the Northeast, Hillary Clinton has, for all intents and purposes, captured the Democratic...
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Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump? The Winner Is…the Oligarchy
The real winners in election 2016 are going to be the new-economy oligarchs who are among Clinton’s biggest donors.This presidential election may have been driven by populist fever in both parties, but...
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Public Transportation Ridership: Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back?
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics recently released preliminary data summarizing public transportation ridership in the United States for the calendar year 2015. The preliminary data from the...
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Focus on Cost-Effective GHG Emissions: Report
The Reason Foundation has published my new research reviewing the potential for urban containment (or other restrictive policies that are sometimes called "smart growth") to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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Black Residents Matter
Black lives matter, we’re told—but in many American cities, black residents are either scarce or dwindling in number, chased away by misguided progressive policies that hinder working- and middle-class...
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Politics Move Left, Americans Move Right
In an election year in which the top likely candidates come from New York, big cities arguably dominate American politics more than at any time since New Deal. The dynamics of urban politics, which are...
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How to Make Cities Livable Again
In his new book, The Human City, Joel Kotkin looks at the ways cities succeed or fail in terms of how their residents are best served. Here’s a tour of some past models.Throughout history, urban areas...
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Manhattan Ultra-Luxury ‘Battling the Serpent of Chaos’
The deceleration of China and resulting commodities crash have created a problem for developers of ultra luxury condominiums.The ancient Egyptians believed that the sky was a solid dome, the belly of...
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The Best Cities For Jobs 2016
While speculation is mounting that they’re overheating, the tech boom is still creating jobs at a rapid pace in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, placing them atop our annual assessment of The Best...
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California’s High-Speed Rail Authority Wins Dishonor of the California Golden...
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has won the Independent Institute’s first California Golden Fleece Award for its lack of transparency and history of misleading the public about key...
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