Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province in China. Hangzhou’s historic core is located approximately 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Shanghai and approximately 1,100 kilometers (675 miles) from Beijing .It is the largest municipality in Zhejiang, having passed Wenzhou within the last decade. read more »
Urban Issues
Coronavirus and the Office Apocalypse
“We shall never deal with the complex problems of large units and differentiated groups unless at the same time we rebuild and revitalize the small unit. We must begin at the beginning; it is here where all life, even in big communities and organizations, starts.”
— Lewis Mumford read more »
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The Need to Reboot and Rebuild Public Transit
If you didn’t have time to watch my transit presentation from Milwaukee, I distilled a few of the themes into my October column for Governing magazine. Here’s an excerpt: read more »
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The Limits of Rhetoric
Deep-blue cities and states are eager to declare their social-justice credentials. read more »
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America After COVID: What Demographics Tell Us
“When there is a general change in conditions, it is as if the entire creation had changed, and the whole world altered.” —Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Arab historian read more »
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Biden's Quote: "We're Not Getting rid of fossil fules for a long time, probably 2050"
Former V.P. Joe Biden’s climate policies and the litigation and regulation grandiloquence are toward the energy industry that was virtually non-existent before 1900. Today, America has only about four percent of the world’s population (330 million vs. 8 billion). read more »
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The Roots of California's Tattered Economy Were Planted Long Before the Coronavirus Arrived
California is in far worse shape economically than the great majority of other states also struggling through the pandemic. COVID-19 may be the primary cause of our current distress, but the evolving structure of our economy has exacerbated this calamity. The worst part is our state leaders should have known this all along. read more »
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Escape from New York?
Reports continue to mount on the decline of New York City through the pandemic months. In a July 2020 post, we summarized the situation: read more »
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Urban Reform Institute Releases Report on Upward Mobility
In a new report, Upward Mobility, Charles Blain, Wendell Cox and Joel Kotkin examine examine housing costs, patterns of domestic migration and how they affect upward mobility for middle and working-class citizens, especially historically disadvantage minorities. An excerpt from the report follows below: read more »
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The Riot Ideology, Reborn — excerpted from 'The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump
In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in “30 or 40” American cities if Congress didn’t pass President Lyndon Johnson’s Model Cities antipoverty legislation. read more »
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