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Root Causes of Detroit’s Decline Should Not Go Ignored 27 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
Recently Detroit, under orders from a state-appointed emergency manager, became the largest U.S. city to go bankrupt. This stirred predictable media speculation about why the city, which at 1.8 millio...
America Hanging in There Better Than Rivals 26 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
To paraphrase the great polemicist Thomas Paine, these are times that try the souls of optimists. The country is shuffling through a very weak recovery, and public opinion remains distinctly negative,...
125 Years of Skyscrapers 24 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
Skyscrapers have always intrigued me. Perhaps it began with selling almanacs to subscribers on my Oregon Journalpaper route in Corvallis. I have continued to purchase almanacs each year and until rece...
Children and Cities 23 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
Central cities are not likely to regain their former population. However, some of them may have reached an important inflection point—population growth has returned to at least some of the largest (an...
Mobility for the Poor: Car-Sharing, Car Loans, and the Limits of Public Transit 22 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
Public transit systems intend to enhance local economies by linking people to their occupations. This presents problems for many low-income families dependent on transit for commuting. With rising p...
What Detroit Has Really Taught America 21 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
Nothing. Seriously. Not a damn thing. Oh, the occasion is being used to opine on our state of affairs, but nothing is structurally taking shape in America to prevent the next Detroit from occurring. ...
Here’s a Way to Flood the US Housing Market with One Trillion Dollars 20 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
Members of the millennial generation – born between 1982 and 2003 – carry a student debt burden of close to one trillion dollars. This is the group that includes many just entering the stage in life w...
California Homes Require Real Reach 19 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
In the 1950s and 1960s, Southern California was ground zero for the "American Dream" of owning a house. From tony Newport Beach and Bel-Air to the more middle-class suburbs of the San Fernando Valley ...
Singapore Seeks Its Home 17 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
August 9th is National Day in Singapore, and it is accompanied by both public and private celebrations. From my family’s flat in the public housing estate of Hougang, we can hear the roar of jet plane...
Land Planners Dig In Again 16 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
In the housing industry, land planners are the first to be dropped during a downturn… and the first needed in an upturn. A good way to monitor the optimism of the housing development market is to moni...
