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The Old City versus City Arguments
When I lived in Melbourne, Australia back in 2006, I was shocked by the intense hatred that many Melbourne residents had for Sydney. I assumed that since everyone was Australian, they would have pride...
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Creating New Roads as Easy as Rolling Out a New Carpet?
Photo courtesy of Inhabit.com The creation and maintenance of traditional asphalt roads has always been both time consuming and expensive. Recently, the environmental movement has reinstagated the...
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What can $300 000 get you in real estate?
With housing prices still deeply depressed throughout the world, I thought i’d take a look and see what $300 000 could afford someone in several of the major cities around the United States (give or...
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The Fall of Niagara Falls, New York
Business Week recently posted an excellent and extensive article on the fall of Niagara Falls, New York. For the past four decades, Niagara Falls has continued to plummet into ever increasing...
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“Where Beverly Hills meets Haiti”
I found a rather interesting and discouraging series of images courtesy of Google Earth on the Skyscraper City forum that show and depict a rather unexpected aerial view of the class separation in Sao...
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Highlight in Urban Planning: Beijing’s Outdoor Gyms
Here in North America, the concept of an outdoor gym is pretty foreign (I can only think of ‘Muscle Beach’ down in Los Angeles), yet in Beijing, China, outdoor gyms are a common sight. Since 1998, the...
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The Great Reset by Richard Florida
Any regular reader of the blog will know that i’m a big fan of the author Richard Florida. Florida has written a number of outstanding books such as The Creative Class or Who’s Your City?. Both books...
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Are the Richest Americans Also the Best Educated?
There is a pretty common perception that the wealthiest Americans are also the ones with the highest level of education. Yet, coming up with a way to measure this is obviously a bit difficult....
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Is it cheaper to rent or to buy?
Here is another interesting map of the United States, this one presented by Trulia real estate search. This time the map indicates which major cities are cheaper to rent in and which major cities are...
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Toronto Transit Commission Takes Stance on Whether to Privatize Toronto...
For anyone who lives in Toronto and takes the subway fairly regularly, you may have noticed the posters discussing the potential negative outcomes of privatizing Toronto public transit and using...
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The World: Now and Then
The Amazing Stuff blog recently posted an interesting look at certain cities through the times with the blog post The World: Now and Then. The mix of cities are certainly a touch random (including a...
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The Interactive Singles Map
First of all, I must apologize for the lack of posts in the last little while. Things have been extremely busy and I will be moving in the next short while so all the preparation for that has...
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Museums Need Permanent Exhibits
Recently, the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum in Seattle closed it’s doors on several of the museum’s most permanent exhibits: the Experience Music Project’s Northwest Passage...
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“The 16 Greatest Cities in Human History”
Business Insider recently released an article outlining the 16 greatest cities in human history. Although it appears that the main criteria to make this list is population, it is nonetheless an...
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Highlight in Urban Planning: The High Line
Back in September of 2010, I wrote a blog post titled ‘Top 20 Urban Successes‘ which discussed the Top 20 most successful urban developments originally posted here. Perhaps the most recent of these...
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The Complete Dominance of Amazon or an Opportunity for Independent Bookstores
Having recently moved to San Francisco, I was absolutely appalled to find out that pretty much every single major bookstore in the city had closed within the last year or was in the process of closing....
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San Francisco Big Winner in Commercial Vacancy Rates
The National Association of Realtors has once again released it’s Commercial Real Estate Outlook Report. The report includes the national United States vacancy rates for industrial real estate,office...
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Monaco Plans Expansion into the Sea?
I was just browsing the internet and found this interesting forum post back from 2006 on SkyscraperCity: Monaco Plan Expansion into the Sea. The topic poster doesn’t provide a news reference but there...
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Are Smaller Cities Our Future?
James Howard Kunstler of Orion Magazine recently released an article titled ‘Back to the Future‘ which makes several predictions on how people will live in the future. Perhaps most interesting is that...
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Neighbourhood Revitilization: A Success Story or a Story of Displacement?
First of all, let me start off by saying that anything here is strictly my opinion and nothing more. But I do believe there is a lot of truth in what I have to say. Just about any city has at least...
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