My latest article is now online in City Journal, and is about the need for New York to start thinking like a growth city again. It's interesting to contrast NYC with the case of Atlanta I recently wrote about. Atlanta has seen decelerating growth indicating it may be nearing maturity. New York long ago transitioned to maturity. But then the city … [Read More...]
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Atlanta as a Maturing City
My latest piece is now online over at City Journal. It's a look at Atlanta, now bouncing back from a very rough 10-12 year period, but looking increasingly like a city that is maturing rather than a go-go boomtown in its hypergrowth phase. Here's an excerpt: Though still growing rapidly, Atlanta’s fortunes have taken a hit in the new century. From … [Read More...]
Population Shifting in the Midwest
My latest post is online at City Journal. I actually wrote it prior to the Indy op-ed I just put up, but for scheduling reasons they came out in the reverse order. This contains some of the background information against which that op-ed was written. It's about the resorting of population that's occurring within US states in the Midwest. Here's an … [Read More...]
High Performing Midwest Cities Need to Learn How to Attract National Talent
My latest column is online in the Indianapolis Business Journal. Obviously it's about Indianapolis, but similar arguments apply to basically every other basically well-performing Midwest city. They are completely parochial talent sheds and need to attract from further afield. Here's an excerpt: Nashville won 5,000 Amazon jobs despite being … [Read More...]
Indianapolis Bus Rapid Transit
I was on vacation back in Indiana last week, so what else would I do but arrange to take a ride on Indy's under construction BRT system? I had a positive impression of it and am planning to write up a longer piece about the system and the role of BRT in low-density cities generally. In the meantime, here's a podcast I recorded about the project … [Read More...]
St. Louis Blues
My latest article is online in City Journal and is a look at the most recent failed attempt to merge St. Louis city and St. Louis county governments in light of the backdrop of civic challenges there. Here's an excerpt: Better Together, a drive to consolidate the governments of St. Louis County and its towns with the city of St. Louis, was over … [Read More...]
The Midwest’s Small Suburbs
I've been examining data lately, revisiting a topic I'm mentioned in the past, namely the smaller sizes of suburbs in Midwest cities compared to other parts of the country. This applies to much of the US east of the Mississippi as well. West of that river, there are a number of states and regions where there are large suburbs, some of them … [Read More...]
Reinventing City Procurement
Procurement in any context sounds dull and has the reputation of being a painful task you are forced to go through in order to buy something you need. Sascha Haselmayer of CityMart believes there's a different way. He joins me on the podcast to talk about cities using procurement as a problem solving process and engine of government transformation, … [Read More...]
The Plight of the Midsized Midwest Industrial City
Bloomberg's Justin Fox tweeted out a link to this piece from a professor in Peoria, Illinois who left a coveted tenure-track position because he couldn't bear the thought of living there. Here's an excerpt: What this all boiled down to is that it was massively detrimental to my health and well-being to live in a dying Rust Belt city by myself. … [Read More...]
The Quest for Human Flourishing
I recently sat down with Tyler VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Harvard School of Public Health. He's also the director of the Human Flourishing Program, which was the subject of our recording. What is human flourishing? What is the state of it in society today? What can we do to improve our own … [Read More...]
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