Urban Youth Deserve Chance to Hear About Service Academies
Here’s a disturbing thought as Veterans Day approaches: Some teachers and administrators of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) refuse to allow visits to high school campuses by...
View ArticleMunicipal Budget Mess
A recent report from the National League of Cities projects a grim financial situation for many municipal governments during the next three years. According to the report the municipal sector "likely...
View Article“First” vs. “Worst”
Taking on the Portland mystique is not easy – and likely I'll find out again with my most recent piece: Picture-perfect Portland?But I'd also like to take a Midwest perspective that shows some...
View ArticleNear-New Seattle Residential High-Rise Faces Demolition
Seattle's tony Belltown condo neighborhood hardly needs more bad news. Like many other similar areas in central city cores, the supply of new high rise condominiums has far outstripped the demand. Over...
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Dhaka's Dangerous Development
It has been a horrendous week in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and the world's most dense urban area (104,000 population per square mile/40,000 per square kilometer). On Tuesday, a five story...
View ArticleSupporting Small Business in NYC: The Harlem Metro Market Project
The Harlem Community Development Corporation has come up with a rather unique plan to combat high real estate prices in the district. It proposes establishing an open-air market under the Metro North...
View ArticleSegregation and Quality of Life
CensusScope’s dissimilarity index measures the distributions of blacks and whites across a city to quantify the level of integration and segregation. The site discerned three major Midwestern cities in...
View ArticleMaking Stuff Up at Atlantic Cities
Editor Sommer Mathis over at The Atlantic Cities has taken to making stuff up. In a recent post she reported on a dispute in the city of Seattle over minimum parking requirements relating to multi-unit...
View ArticleApplying the Urbanophile's Beliefs About Cities to Houston
Last month The Urbanophile posted his statement of beliefs about cities, and a lot of them resonated with me about Houston. Here are some favorite excerpts along with my own thoughts. * Great cities,...
View ArticleThe Diminishing Returns of Large Cities: Population Growth Myths
One of the big myths of the twentieth century is that large American cities are necessary and inevitable. Yet in reality growth has been dispersing to suburbs and smaller cities for the last two...
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