The more you limit housing, the more you increase displacement In city after city, we see the same refrain: a neighborhood is starting to attract new residents and new investment, current residents are starting to
If you want less displacement, build more housing Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Philadelphia’s urban policy harmonic convergence. The proposal to build a multi-billion dollar expansion of University City adjacent to Drexel University and Philadelphia’s Center City brings a host of
The Week Observed, August 24, 2018 Read Post »
People and social interaction, not technology, is the key to the future of cities Smart city afficianado’s are agog at the prospects that the Internet of Things will create vast new markets for technology that
IoT: The Irrelevance of Thingies Read Post »
Philly’s University City: The urban challenge in a nutshell The knowledge economy . . . tax breaks . . . NIMBYism . . . gentrification . . . Amazon’s HQ2 . . . high speed
Philadelphia’s urban policy harmonic convergence Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. We disagree with the Washington Post on housing economics. Two weeks ago, the Washington Post published an article claiming that rents were going down for higher income renters
The Week Observed, August 17, 2018 Read Post »
Rural and small town America faces some tough odds In an article entitled: “How to save the Troubled American Heartland,” Bloomberg’s very smart Noah Smith shares his thoughts on how to revive the smaller towns
Whither small towns? Wither small towns? Read Post »
