For middle- and working-class people across the developed world, home ownership has served as a primary driver of upward mobility. But in a growing number of places, this aspiration is being systematically undermined read more »
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April 2024 Transit Ridership 74.6% of 2019
Transit systems carried less than 75 percent as many riders in April 2024 as in the same month before the pandemic read more »
The Media's Great Awokening is Alienating the Masses
When I was a cub reporter working at the Washington Post a half-century ago, being a journalist was first and foremost a craft. I once tried to slip my opinion into an article, but my editor wrote on the copy that ‘nobody gives a shit what you think’. read more »
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The Demographic Dilemma: How Urban Planning is Deepening Australia’s Social Divide
For over two decades, urban planning’s preoccupation with urban form above all else, has diminished its ability to resolve the growing social and economic divide occurring across the nation. read more »
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The Green Road to Tyranny
In all the hysteria about the threat to democracy connected to the bombast of Donald Trump, an arguably greater long-term threat is mounting, though all but ignored read more »
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Envisioning Rust Belt Success
My Defining Rust Belt Urbanism piece three weeks ago, in which I discuss the themes of what would drive Midwest urban rebirth, prompted a great question. read more »
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How California Became a Warning to the World
For generations, California has led the world in creating cutting-edge ideas and opportunities for newcomers. read more »
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Thinking in Public
My newsletter happy hour here in Indiana is from 6p-8p in Carmel. The event is sold out, but if you are interested in going please email me and I can probably add you to the list. read more »
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Are Progressives to Blame for the Worsening Housing Crisis?
In recent years, housing has emerged as arguably the key driver of class divisions in the Western world. For decades, working- and middle-class people could dream reasonably about buying a house read more »
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Vaclav Smil Calls Bullshit on Net Zero
In a 2019 interview, Vaclav Smil described himself as “just an old-fashioned scientist describing the world and the lay of the land as it is. read more »
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