The astonishing gap between America’s fastest- and slowest-building cities
The Soviet Union famously churned out tens of thousands of new apartment buildings in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s — ...
Tag: Cities & Urbanism
America is built for driving. There’s hidden demand for something better.
Maybe you’ve heard this unkind old joke about American culture: We will pay a small fortune to amble through the ...
American cities are paying too much for sprawling housing
The housing abundance movement has won more of the intellectual argument than anyone might have predicted a decade ago. Across ...
The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC
While President Donald Trump has been flexing America’s might overseas, he’s also working to impose his will on the nation’s ...
We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both.
The first thing that struck me about this year’s most talked-about policy book, Abundance (perhaps you’ve heard of it?), is ...
Cities are booming with bikes — and getting safer and cleaner
While walking my son to school a couple of weeks ago, I noticed something odd happening on Court Street, a ...
US urban fire deaths have dropped sharply since 1980
My family lives in a heavily-trafficked part of Brooklyn, and most nights you’ll hear the occasional whine of fire engine ...
NYC’s congestion pricing is unpopular — for now
The first-in-the-nation policy — which tries to reduce traffic and raise revenue for public transit by charging drivers a steep ...
A public housing success story
In the last issue of this newsletter, I wrote about what went wrong with public housing in the United States ...
The most dangerous roads in America have one thing in common
Some 110 years in the past, a picturesque new highway often known as Roosevelt Boulevard started ferrying autos throughout the ...
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