Urban Issues

Back in September, I wrote a piece that highlighted a notable but underestimated accomplishment in Chicago’s housing market.  read more »

Like many transit agencies, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni) is facing a big budget deficit  read more »

I thought I was done with my own 2024 election introspection, but I’m not.  read more »

In the center of the American Sun Belt lies the eighth-largest economy in the world, home to nearly one out of 10 Americans.  read more »

On September 20^th Sound Transit published the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed light rail extension to West Seattle.  read more »

In 2023 a total of more than 1.5 million residential building permits were issued in the United States, according to the Census Bureau.  read more »

For the last two centuries, one of the most important demographic trends has been the movement of people from rural areas to the cities.  read more »

No power on earth is more fearsome than a highly educated class that faces a constrained, even dismal, future.  read more »

In July, on the 35th anniversary of World Population Day, the United Nations released a new report that reduced the world’s peak population prediction by 100 million  read more »

Anyone who follow me here knows I write quite a bit about Midwestern cities. They’re what I know best and love most.  read more »