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Citibank, Citizen Wriston, And The Age of Greed
Robert Sarnoff , the CEO of RCA before it was absorbed by GE, once said, “Finance is the passing of money from hand to hand until it disappears.” That process is very clearly defined in The Age of...
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Population Change 2010-2011: Interesting Differences
The recently released estimates of population change and the natural increase and migration components of that change for 2010-2011 contain a few surprises, as well as much what has come to be...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Kolkata: 50 Mile City
More than a decade ago, the Sierra Club and I crossed keyboards over urban density. The Sierra Club had just posted a new "neighborhood consumption calculator," that gave visitors the opportunity to...
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Urban Development: Playing Twister With The California Environmental Quality...
When it comes to environmental issues, emotions often trump reasoned argument or sensible reform, especially in California. In Sacramento at our state capitol, real world impacts are abstracted into...
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Urban Legend: Wei Ping Contemplates Motherhood
Driving through the bustling Orchard Road in the heart of Singapore, Wei Ping stares at the shiny new Prada hoarding. Maybe she should ”invest” in a new Prada bag. She must watch out for the next big...
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Three Cheers for Urban Sprawl
“Hands off Our Land!” screams the Daily Telegraph, like some shotgun-toting red-faced farmer. The newspaper, on behalf of the reactionary toffs who form the least pleasant section of its readership,...
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Martin Luther King, Economic Equality And The 2012 Election
In the last years of his life Dr. Martin Luther King expanded his focus from political and civil rights to include economic justice. Noting that the majority of America’s poor were white King decried...
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After Seven Billion
An interview in Social Intelligence with Neil Howe on the changing nature of human population growth and its implications for politics, culture, and business. Headlines around the world are trumpeting...
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Fresh Winds Blowing on California High Speed Rail
For California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project, last week brought plenty of surprises and challenges. Dominating the headlines were the resignations of several top officials of the High-Speed...
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Florida’s Quick Rebound
Adding nearly 119,000 people in 2011, Florida has capped a decade of steady population increase to see the state grow 19% since 2000. Despite 2009, an historic year where more people left than...
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Mistaking an Aberration for the End of Home Ownership
It is well known that home ownership has declined in the United States from the peak of the housing bubble. According to Current Population Survey data, the national home ownership rate fell 2.9...
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This Is America's Moment, If Washington Doesn't Blow It
The vast majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and, according to a 2011 Pew Survey, close to a majority feel that China has already surpassed the U.S. as an...
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Against Cosmopolitanism
All science fiction agrees. History is leading to the unification of earth. The united world may be governed by benign world federalism or by a dystopian global tyranny. But the modern literature of...
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Preserving the "Ideal of a Property Owning Democracy:" Annual Demographia...
Demographia and Performanceurbanplanning.org have just released the 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, with an introduction by Professor Robert Bruegmann of the...
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The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money
Mitt Romney’s collapse in South Carolina reflects the larger, long-term decline of the American patrician class he represents. That decline was accelerated by the 2008 financial meltdown that resulted...
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Britain Fears a Developer’s Charter
The UK Government’s Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced that there were only 127,780 new housing completions last year in Britain. British house building activity is down...
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Housing Affordability and Public Policy
Nothing in the world today affects citizens more directly than the home in which they live. And when it comes to housing no piece of recent research opens more interesting avenues of investigation...
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Welcome Back, Britain! Why The U.K. Doesn't Need The E.U.
To some, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to demur from the new euro rescue plan has made the U.K. irrelevant on the world scene. Yet by moving away from the euro zone, Cameron did...
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America’s Demographic Future
Perhaps nothing has more defined America and its promise than immigration. In the future, immigration and the consequent development of what Walt Whitman (1855: iv) called “a race of races” will remain...
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How Libraries and Bookstores Became the New Community Centers
Bookstores and libraries have long played a central role in fostering a deeper appreciation of knowledge, and in lifelong learning. Increasingly, these places are also filling another critical need in...
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