A small, geographically constrained community considers how to deal with a massive influx of new residents — and how to keep things affordable for everyone in the process.
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Lexington, KY offered my young parents an affordable home and a good life decades ago. If we want that opportunity to be available for the next generation, we're going to need to remove a lot of barriers to development.
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This proposal is political theater at best, and, at worst, it's treating jobs as an object of religious veneration.
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The ship is sinking and we're not even rearranging the deck chairs; we're arguing about their color.
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We have come up with many ways to explain the decline we see around us. In reality, we've simply given our cities no other option.
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Where improvement is not an option, stagnation and decline are all that remain.
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This is just the first step on a long and often difficult road.
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This fall, five articles explored important questions about the cost of housing and the need for "growth" and development in Portland, OR.
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We've traded stability for growth, but now we find that we have neither.
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Dallas is not financially productive. There is too much area to service and maintain and not enough wealth to do it. There's too much stuff and not enough place.
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The prevailing belief among municipalities is that any growth that replaces older forms of development inherently creates wealth.
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The silly saga of getting water to my local airport is a case study in the failure of orderly but dumb project development.
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Once you learn the truth about the Suburban Experiment, you can’t unlearn it. You can’t stop seeing it. It drives you crazy, and it doesn’t let go.
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This week we turn our hard work from sharing our message to growing our base of support. We are making the push for 1,000 members. We need your support.
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Should we build ours cities around something that helps them grow, or something that does not?
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Cities can experience growth and job creation today quite easily if they are willing to take on a disproportionate amount of long term liabilities. In other words, I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for growth and jobs today.
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Following a Curbside Chat earlier this year, Waco, Texas, is taking some difficult and important steps towards getting their financial house in order.
Read MoreThirty two new jobs (projected), a million dollars in direct subsidies and millions more in transportation funding later, we’ve managed to move two businesses from one Minnesota community to another. And we call that “creating” jobs and businesses.
Rome (AD 56): They make a desert and call it peace.
America (AD 2014): They relocate a business and call it growth.
Have we fallen so far that telling ourselves lies is the best we can do?
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Our national economy is "all in" on the suburban experiment. We cannot sustain the trajectory we are on, but we've gone too far down the path to turn back.
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