Well, it’s big in Japan.
That is what proponents of California’s high speed rail project say when asked about the whys and wherefores of the system. In other words, if it works somewhere else it will work here. read more »
PlanningBig in Japan
by Thomas Buckley 02/07/2023
Well, it’s big in Japan. That is what proponents of California’s high speed rail project say when asked about the whys and wherefores of the system. In other words, if it works somewhere else it will work here. read more » »
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The Future of Cities: The Future of the Big American City Is Not Bright
by Samuel J Abrams 02/03/2023
As COVID-19 begins to wane and become endemic, the question for policymakers, theorists, and Americans at large is: What is in store for our nation's big cities? read more » »
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Welcome to Austin
by Pete Saunders 01/13/2023
I'm going to make a little deviation from the bulk of the "Welcome to..." stories you see below, which mostly focus on South Side Chicago neighborhoods (the exceptions are Rosemont, in Chicago's northwest suburbs, and Park Forest, in the south suburbs). read more » »
Let Cities Be What They Want to Be
by Randal OToole 01/12/2023
An on-line site called the Dumber, er, I mean Intelligancer says that, for cities to survive, developers must be allowed to convert office buildings into housing. read more »
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Washington, Colorado, and Oregon: The Next Domestic Outmigration Wave?
by Wendell Cox 12/30/2022
The newly published US Census Bureau state and District of Columbia population estimates contain some surprises about changing growth and net domestic migration (movement between states) patterns. read more » »
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Home Building and Developing in The New Normal
by Rick Harrison 12/27/2022
In a recent YouTube video Avoid These Cities (Housing Crash 2022) EPB Research provides an analysis of the national market. In general, West Coast is bad and East Coast is OK, especially the southeast. The overly regulated western states with higher raw land prices and huge city fees result in higher home prices. read more » »
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Density and the Fertility Trap
by Randal OToole 12/26/2022
Yesterday, Tyler Cowan mentioned in the Marginal Revolution blog that he wished books on urban areas “would spend more time discussing whether dense urban areas are simply a fertility trap.” read more »
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Low Speed Fail
by Thomas Buckley 12/15/2022
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice as she grew taller and taller in Wonderland. Curiouser and curiouser, said everyone paying even the slightest attention as the high-speed rail fantasy grew bigger and more expensive and further behind schedule and more incomprehensible and more ludicrous and now, yes, even possibly taller and taller in California. read more » »
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A Better Future
by Joel Kotkin 11/16/2022
In earlier times, even with a soaring population, Americans knew how to accommodate housing demand. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we built cities from scratch along the frontier. The existing major urban centers—Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia—all expanded rapidly, both by density and expansion into land on the periphery. read more » »
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Housing Affordability in California: Part 3 — A Way Forward
by Wendell Cox 11/15/2022
Urban containment has significant costs. In commenting on the association between London’s urban growth boundary,1 and the higher costs of housing, The Economist said: “Suburbs rarely cease growing of their own accord. The only reliable way to stop them, it turns out, is to stop them forcefully. read more » |
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