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How Much Value Do Economists Assign to Having Married Parents Who Aren’t on...
Yesterday I posted my new column from the September issue of Governing magazine in which I write:"There are a number of people in the national media who make the argument that things aren’t so bad,...
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Big Tech Finds Itself Lacking Political Allies
Our nation’s ruling tech oligarchs may be geniuses in making money through software, but they are showing themselves to be not so adept in the less quantifiable world of politics. Once the toast of the...
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A Layman's Guide To Houston After Harvey: Don't Throw The Opportunity Baby...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and the disastrous flooding, Houston has come under extreme scrutiny. Some in the global, national as well as local media assaulted the area's flood control system...
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Where America's Highest Earners Live
The mainstream media commonly assumes that affluent Americans like to cluster in the dense cores of cities. This impression has been heightened by some eye-catching recent announcements by big...
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Too Many Rust Belt Leaders Have Stockholm Syndrome
One of the criticisms leveled at Richard Florida is that many of the Rust Belt cities that tried to cater to the creative class ended up wasting their money on worthless programs.What this illustrates...
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Garden Grove: The Other Kind of Incremental Urbanism
This is the historic Main Street in Garden Grove, California. Back in 1874 land was platted in small twenty five foot wide lots and sold off with minimal infrastructure. Individuals built modest...
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Transit Work Access in 2016: Working at Home Gains
Working at home continues to grow as a preferred access mode to work, according to the recently released American Community Survey data for 2016. The latest data shows that 5.0 percent of the nation's...
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The Bottom Line of the Culture Wars
America’s seemingly unceasing culture wars are not good for business, particularly for a region like Southern California. As we see Hollywood movie stars, professional athletes and the mainstream media...
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Bringing Soviet Planning to New York City
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to bring the same policies that worked so well in the Soviet Union, and more recently in Venezuela, to New York City. “If I had my druthers, the city government...
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Local Empowerment Should Be About Local Matters
I’ve generally been someone who wants to see local governments have more power and flexibility to meet local needs. My rationale is simple. States are full of diverse communities that are a bad fit for...
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Case Studies in Autonomous Vehicles, Part I: Shared Use Vehicles and the...
There has been a lot of discussion about the potential of autonomous vehicles to change our transportation landscape, in particular the potential for such cars to be shared, reducing car ownership,...
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Oh, for those good days without fossil fuels!
Maybe it’s time to start scaling back on our leisurely lifestyle to lower our greenhouse gas emissions and start reverting back to the pre-1900 horse and buggy days for our transportation systems, and...
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Progressive Cities: Home of the Worst Housing Inequality
America's most highly regulated housing markets are also reliably the most progressive in their political attitudes. Yet in terms of gaining an opportunity to own a house, the price impacts of the...
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What Does the Future Hold for the Automobile?
For a generation, the car has been reviled by city planners, greens and not too few commuters. In the past decade, some boldly predicted the onset of “peak car” and an auto-free future which would be...
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Ending Economic Apartheid
Thanks to its greenbelt and slow-growth policies, Boulder, Colorado is the nation’s most-expensive and least-affordable housing market of any city not in a coastal state. As a result, as noted in an...
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Superstar Effect: Venture Capital Investments
This is the latest in my “superstar effect” series. Richard Florida posted an interesting analysis of venture capital investments over at City Lab.Four cities dominate the charts: San Francisco Bay...
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How We Are Kluging the World's Growth Process
The quirks of software and operating systems that we seem to experience on a daily basis are the result of Kluges – almost all software is written with fixes that work for a particular problem, often...
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Rising Rents Are Stressing Out Tenants And Heightening America's Housing Crisis
The home-buying struggles of Americans, particularly millennials, have been well documented. Yet a recent study by Hunt.com found that the often-proposed “solution” of renting is not much of a panacea....
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Housing Unaffordability Policies: "Paying for Dirt"
Issi Romem, buildzoom.com's chief economist has made a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the severe unaffordability of housing in a number of US metropolitan areas. The disparities...
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The New State Role Models
With Congress on what appears to be a permanent hold, the search for a workable political model now shifts increasingly to states and localities. Today America’s divergent geographies resemble separate...
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