When my Gen Z students graduated a few months ago, I noticed something unusual about their post-baccalaureate plans. For most of my teaching career, many of my students would move to New York City or other large cities to be at the center of the cultural zeitgeist and be connected with others. read more »
Urban Issues
The Question of "Developed" Land -- And Its Impact On Housing
One of the often-used arguments from advocates for increasing housing supply in our nation's most expensive cities is that zoning policy, or the regulation of land use by local government, has kept an artificially low ceiling on housing development read more »
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Report: How Will California Solve the Housing Crisis?
This new report examines the housing crisis in California and strategies to create more housing at affordable price points. Below is a summary and a link to download the full report read more »
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New Jersey Challenges New York’s Cordon Fee Plan
With federal approval of New York’s environmental assessment, most of the federal, state, and local obstacles to New York City’s cordon pricing plan — which almost everyone erroneously calls a congestion pricing plan read more »
America: Moving to Lower Densities Post-2020 Census Data
Driven, at least in part, by the huge increase in the potential for remote work, US residents moved in large numbers to states with lower urban densities read more »
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Localist Living in a Shrinking Age
I try hard to give people insights into trends affecting our world. One of them is the way that declining birth rates will ultimately translate into shrinking cities. read more »
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Save Our Cities
With office districts and tower blocks losing their lustre, we need to rethink what cities are for. It’s time to create better neighbourhoods where people will want to spend their time. read more »
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California: No Growth to 2060 per State Projections
The state of California Department of Finance (DOF) has issued interim population projections indicating that in 2060, there will be 39,508,000 residents in the state. read more »
Demographically, Cities Will 'Always' Lose to Suburbs
I often check in on NewGeography.com, a website led by southern California-based urban studies professor and famed suburbanist Joel Kotkin. read more »
High-Speed Rail Proposal Runs into High-Cost Problems
At the June meeting of the Legislature’s Joint Transportation Committee a consultant presented a review of Ultra High-Speed Rail studies that have been done for the I-5 corridor. As is often the case, most of the findings were couched in language crafted to avoid offending anyone and included many caveats about data availability and assumptions that need to be further refined. Despite that, the findings cast doubt on the feasibility of the proposal. Key findings include: read more »
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