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Urban Future: The Revolt Against Central Planning
In Milton Keynes, perhaps the most radical of Britain’s post-Second World War “New Towns,” the battle over Brexit and the culture war that it represents is raging hard. There, the consequences of EU...
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The Meaning of the Baby Bust
With a stronger economy and a growing number of women of child-bearing age, Americans should be producing offspring at a healthy clip. But the most recent data suggest that this is not happening, as...
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Australia: Mad As Hell And Not Gonna Take It?
The result of Australia’s recent Federal election remains unclear, as the count has continued — as of this writing — for days. What is clear is that the major parties suffered a rebuff. One in four...
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Adding Space to Suburbia
Space has value. Even the mere perception of space has value. As land becomes more scarce, space becomes more valuable, and has a direct impact on housing costs and a developer’s profit (or loss). Both...
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Chicago's Advantages
When I wrote that Chicago is the duck-billed platypus of American cities, I noted that there were a lot things about Chicago that were unique – both good and bad – putting it in a class of its own and...
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Learning from Medellín with Alejandro Echeverri
“I think, if you want to write a new narrative at some specific moment in the story of a city, it is important that you have to feel the transformation and see the transformation. So the physical...
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Challenging Nordic Myths
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and numerous other American politicians want to increase taxes, regulate businesses and create a society where government takes responsibility for many aspects of daily...
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Population Change, 2015: Not Very Good News for Those Angry White Men
Data on population growth from 2010 to 2015 show a continuing concentration of people in metropolitan areas, especially in the large areas with over a million people, where presumably traditional...
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The Shorter Commutes in American Suburbs and Exurbs
An examination of American Community Survey (ACS) data in the major metropolitan areas of the United States shows that suburbs and exurbs have the shortest one-way work trip travel times for the...
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Election 2016: Peak Transformation
Barack Obama came to office with a promise of “fundamentally transforming the United States.” Through what one admirer calls “a profound course correction engineered by relentless government activism,”...
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Silicon Valley and the Logic of the Globalized Economy
The technology driven global economy is brutally competitive and has put enormous stress on businesses to adapt or die.I lived through this at Accenture. When I started the firm was a partnership that...
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A Different Approach to Redevelopment
As part of a thought experiment I examined one specific neighborhood in a typical small city in Georgia. I’m using this town not because it’s unique, but because it’s absolutely normative. I could do...
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So You Want a Revolution
You say you want a revolution Well you know We’d all want to change the world.____ The Beatles (1968)Apparently not. Not any more. Not everyone wants to change the world. To the Beatles in 1968, when...
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The U.S. Cities Creating The Most White-Collar Jobs, 2016
The information sector may have glamour and manufacturing, nostalgia appeal, but the real action in high-wage job growth in the United States is in the vast realm of professional and business services....
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Surprising Ordos: The Evolving Urban Form
Ordos, in China's Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia (equivalent to a province) has received international notoriety as a "ghost city." I had already visited one other ghost city and found the reports...
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The Future of Latino Politics
The sad decline in race relations has focused, almost exclusively, on the age-old, and sadly growing, chasm between black and white. Yet this divide may prove far less important, particularly in this...
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Why Clinton Could Lose the Working Class in Ohio
In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are tied in battleground Ohio. This suggests a very close race in Ohio in the fall. Economic issues, especially trade, led many former...
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Lessons Learned from Long-Term Privatizations
Is long term privatization of government assets in the form of leases or concessions a good idea?The answer is not Yes or No but rather What and How.Done right, long-term privatization can be a great...
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UberPool & LyftLine: How the New Carpools Will Change Travel
How will new carpool options like LyftLine and UberPool affect the marketplace of transit services? When mobility conversations turn to Lyft, Uber and other ridesourcing — or ridesharing — companies,...
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Ireland Adopts Plan to Increase Housing Supply and Improve Housing Affordability
The government of Ireland has adopted a new policy (Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness) intended to improve the quality of life and the national economy by making housing more...
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