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Urban Issues
How Texas Can Defy the Demographic Odds
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The West Seattle Link Extension Has Gone Off the Rails
On September 20th Sound Transit published the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed light rail extension to West Seattle. read more »
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U.S. Residential Building Permits by Market Size: 2023
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 »
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Canadians Moving to Smaller Cities and Rural Areas
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 »
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The New Revolutionary Class
No power on earth is more fearsome than a highly educated class that faces a constrained, even dismal, future. read more »
The Middling Kingdom
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 »
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What's Great About Midwestern Cities
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 »
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The West Faces a New Type of Housing Crisis
Throughout the West, particularly the Anglosphere, housing costs are ravaging the middle class. Homeownership, long the key to social mobility, is on the decline read more »
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How the City of Angels Went to Hell
A journey through Los Angeles, the adopted home of Vice President Kamala Harris, offers a masterclass in urban dysfunction. read more »
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Moving Away from Density to Less Dense Detached Housing Areas
Further evidence of the continued dispersion of the US population is revealed by an examination of net domestic migration data read more »
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