opinion
OLD AND OVER THE HILL
Fewer people are arriving, the people who are there are having fewer kids, and more people are dying. Add it up, and it’s big trouble for the biggest state.
Wendell Cox is the principal of the consultancy Demographic and a senior fellow at the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.
opinion
‘EXPOSURE DENSITY’
The pandemic put a harsh spotlight on urban inequality and its health consequences, which turned out to be far more impactful than the policies Democratic governors boasted about.
opinion
TIME BOMB
As demographics shift across the globe, there are more grandparents than grandchildren for the first time in recorded history.
opinion
THE TRUE SECRET OF TRUMPISM
Want to know why Trump won, and the smart city folk couldn’t see it coming? Look at a lost decade when the economy “recovered” but Americans fell further and further behind.
Geography vs. Demography
As Democratic voters leave high-priced, deep-blue cities for houses with garages, the question is if the new arrivals will change the suburbs or if the suburbs will change them.
‘The Universal Aspiration’
While home ownership remains the dream of most Americans, fewer and fewer people here can afford to own one.
opinion
The Big Idea
Despite spending $15 billion on seven new metro and light-rail lines and two exclusive busways, more Los Angeles-area residents work at home than take transit.
TROUBLE COMING
For years, we’ve heard about the “return to the city.” It was never as true as the hype, but now it’s about to collapse entirely.
Wrong Track
U.S. housing planners have long ignored the public’s desire for affordable single-family housing. Now the same thing is happening on a global scale, in China, Australia, and elsewhere.
Hotspots
Aspirational cities—places where people go to change their luck or improve their lives—are always changing, and yesterday’s backwater is suddenly today’s hotspot. Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox call the roll of the current crop.