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California's War on the Emerging Generation
It should be the obligation of older citizens to try to improve the prospects for their successors. But, here in California, as seen in a new report issued by the Chapman Center for Demographics and...
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The Downside of Pragmatism
‘Pragmatism killed Michigan.”When my consultant friend Dwight Gibson said this about his home state, I was taken aback. I always thought pragmatism was a good thing, and I think of myself as a...
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The globalization debate is just beginning
The decisive victory of Emmanuel Macron for president of France over Marine Le Pen is being widely hailed as a victory of good over evil, and an affirmation of open migration flows and globalization....
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The New American Heartland: Renewing the Middle Class by Revitalizing the...
This is the introduction to a new report for the Center for Opportunity Urbanism on the future of the heartland region by Michael Lind and Joel Kotkin and a team of contributors. Download the full...
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Move Over, San Francisco: Dallas Tops Our List Of The Best Cities For Jobs 2017
Dallas is called the Big D for a reason. Bigger, better, best: that’s the Dallas mindset. From the gigantic Cowboys stadium in Arlington to the burgeoning northern suburbs to the posh arts district...
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America's Heartland is Critical to Our Future
The results of the 2016 presidential election have been ascribed -- by the winner’s critics -- to racism, hysteria, stupidity, or nostalgia. But what the results most reflected was a looming economic...
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MaX Lanes: A Next Generation Strategy for Affordable Proximity
This is the introduction to a new report written by Tory Gattis of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. Download the full report here.The core urban challenge of our time is ‘affordable proximity’: how...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Budapest
The Budapest area has lost population overall since 1980, having fallen from 3.03 million to 2.99 million in 2016, according to Hungarian Central Statistical Office data as reported by...
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What Trump has wrought
Just a few short months ago, we seemed on the brink of a new political era. Donald Trump improbably was headed to the White House, while the Democratic Party, at near historic lows in statehouse power...
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Cincinnati Streetcars’ “Catastrophic Failures”
The Cincinnati streetcar–now known as the Cincinnati Bell Connector since Cincinnati Bell paid $3.4 million for naming rights–is barely six months old, and already is having problems. Four streetcars...
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Rail in Legacy Cities vs. Federal Funds to Poorer Markets
Someone asked me to reconcile my recent paper on rail funding with my stance on Cal-Train electrification that the feds should prioritize funding towards poorer cities. Very good question because there...
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Rebuilding America's Infrastructure
President Trump promised a $1 trillion infrastructure plan during his campaign. Spending more money on infrastructure is something that has broad support among people of all political persuasions.But...
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The Best Small and Medium-Size Cities For Jobs 2017
Much of the U.S. media tends to see smaller cities as backwaters, inevitably left behind as the “best and brightest” head to the country’s mega-regions. The new economy, insists the Washington Post,...
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Seattle Booms in Latest Census City-Level Estimates
Seattle tops the growth charts among the top 25 cities in the Census Bureau’s latest release of 2016 city and town population estimates.Seattle, a land-locked (no annexation) city in the Pacific...
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The California economy's surface strength hides looming weakness
If you listen to California’s many boosters, things have never been so good. And, to be sure, since 2011, the state appears to have gained its economic footing, and outperformed many of its...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Prague
Prague is the capital of Czechia, a nation most readers have probably never heard of. Last year, the Czech Republic adopted a new name that does not reveal its governance structure (republic). The new...
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Is California About to Clobber Local Control?
The gradual decimation of local voice in planning has become accepted policy in Sacramento. The State Senate is now considering two dangerous bills, SB 35 and SB 167, that together severely curtail...
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Preparing For The Infinite Suburb
A Q&A With Alan Berger and Joel Kotkin.Third in a series of conversations during Infrastructure Week. See the previous Q&A with Dan Katz, Transportation Policy Counsel at Hyperloop One, and...
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Amtrak and Express Coach Lines: What's Competition Have To Do With It?
Express coach lines like BoltBus and Megabus have grown dramatically in recent years, providing millions of Americans with new mobility options. When the subject of competition between bus and train...
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The Silicon Valley Mindset
The tech industry is one of the most powerful entities affecting our world. But who are these people? And what do they believe and how do they think about the world? A couple of recent articles provide...
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