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Infinite Suburbia
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Infinite Suburbia, a collection edited by Alan M. Berger and Joel Kotkin, with Celina Balderas Guzaman: "Global urbanization is heading toward...
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Protecting Cities in Fire-Prone Regions
If you live in a fire-prone area, which includes most of California, it is not a good idea to allow ivy and other plants to cover the sides of your building, as this winery and this church did near...
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Why Small, Struggling Cities Don’t Need “Talent”
I recently recorded a podcast with my colleague Steve Eide in which he argued against the idea that attracting high talented people into government is what was needed for smaller, post-industrial...
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Anaheim Transit: Suck It Up
When I was a kid back in 1971 I lived in Anaheim, California where my mom was a waitress at a local amusement park. Exploring Orange County as an adult recently it all felt more or less the same as I...
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Highest Cost Rental Markets: Even Worse for Buyers
There is considerable concern about rising rents, especially in the most expensive US housing markets. Yet as tough as rising rents are, the high rent markets are also plagued by even higher house...
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Is There A Civilization War Going On?
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” — Arnold J. ToynbeeFrom the heart of Europe to North America, nativism, sometimes tinged by white nationalist extremism, is on the rise. In recent...
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Chicago's Story Of Population Loss Is Becoming An Exclusive About Black...
Population estimates released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau show that Chicago’s population has declined for the third year in row.According to the latest estimates, Chicago’s population fell by...
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RBC Report Highlights Increasing Housing Affordability Challenges in Canada
Households could face even greater housing affordability challenges in the years to come, according to the September 2017 RBC Economics (RBC) Housing Trends and Affordability report. In noting that...
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Why Is the Trump Administration Promoting Further Economic and Media...
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to lift ownership restrictions on local media. This would allow, for example, ownership of multiple major TV stations in the same market by the same...
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2nd Quarter Home Price Indices
Someone just paid $1.1 million for a tear-down/fixer-upper in Mountain View, California. That’s not really news, as prices in Silicon Valley have been increasingly outrageous. What’s news is that they...
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What Happens After Half Your Town Burns Down?
Last month I wrote about how insurance companies are getting ahead of the curve by preemptively dropping coverage and/or significantly raising the cost of policies for properties believed to be at...
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The GOP Establishment No Bargain Either
Perhaps nothing has been more ironic than the canonization of respectable, moderate-seeming Republicans. People like Mitt Romney and the Bush family, once castigated as practitioners of unmitigated...
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The Changing Urban Patterns in College Degreed Younger Adults
While doing some research for a forthcoming presentation, I was looking at some data about younger people with college degrees and put together some maps I’ll share with you today.The Census Bureau...
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A US Home Ownership Turn Around?
The Census Bureau reports that home ownership in the United States rose to 63.9 percent in the third quarter of 2017. This continues a rising trend since the second quarter of 2016, when home ownership...
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Economic Nationalism and the Half-Life of Deindustrialization
In a 60 Minutes interview in September, Steven Bannon touted his form of economic nationalism and suggested that Democrats like Senator Sherrod Brown and U.S Representative Tim Ryan understood his...
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Blockchain - A Capitalist Revolution for the Internet
Blockchain, i.e. digitized and decentralized public ledgers of cryptocurrency1 or digital asset transactions, might emerge as the tool to liberate the Internet from the domination of the tech...
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Journalism Disrupted Again as DNAInfo, Gothamist Shuttered
Owner Joe Ricketts shuttered unprofitable local news sites DNAInfo and Gothamist yesterday. Observers link this closure to a vote last week by New York employees to unionize.This is an example of the...
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Trump in China and the Limits of Authoritarianism
As President Trump visits China, the contrast between the president — at war with the national media, the corporate establishment, almost all of academia and even his own party — and the sure-handed Xi...
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Robert Iger For President? To Many Democrats, The Mouse May Look Like A Louse
Few global companies enjoy as much public good will as the Walt Disney Company. The entertainment giant regularly ranks highly on lists of the most admired or trusted companies, including ones from...
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HOUSING 3Q17: Affordability Limits Continue to be...
• Annualized new home starts in 3Q17 are up 2.5% compared to 3Q16, while closings are up 1.7%. Quarterly new home starts were up 31% while closings are down 4% compared to 3Q16.• The average base price...
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