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The Future of Cities: View from the Left Coast

Save the date! Join us live for a Speaker Panel on Friday January 20,2023 from 11:30AM - 2:30PM PST.  read more »

The New California Land Use (CEQA) Reforms

For more than half a century, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has been used to block new residential (and other) projects.  read more »

Why New Land Development and General Aviation Engine Design Are Stagnant

This 3 minute presentation explains why both aircraft engine design and subdivision design remain stagnant.  read more »

Hand in Hand: Urban Planners and Some Libertarians

On October 10, The Wall Street Journal published a review of “Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World” by Sara Bronin of Cornell University.  read more »

The Next Australian City: the Suburban Evolution

Australia, much like America, is a nation of suburbs. The overwhelming majority of its people live, work and play in the suburbs  read more »

No Parking Downtown Austin Apartment Building Foreclosure due to Insufficient Demand

According to Urbanize Austin:

“An apartment complex marketed to middle-income downtown workers, especially those interested in reducing or eliminating their personal vehicle use  read more »

Make Housing Affordable by Abolishing Growth Boundaries, not Ending Density Restrictions: Reason Magazine Debate

In too many metropolitan areas, housing is no longer affordable for middle-class households, especially in  read more »

The Future of Cities - AEI Event

On October 18, AEI’s Ryan Streeter discussed the changing global urban demographics with a panel of contributors to the forthcoming volume The Future of Cities (AEI, 2023).  read more »

Court Blocks Minneapolis Single-Family Zoning Abolition

The City of Minneapolis “cannot enforce its controversial long-range plan eliminating single-family zoning  read more »

Feudal Future Podcast: The World After COVID

It’s a new world for sure, but for better or worse — or simply different? What kind of world is being created, and how will it affect developing countries, big cities, suburbs and smaller towns around the world?  read more »