The circular firing squad
Via the New York Sunday Times (subscription probably required) comes this interesting tale that illustrates how subtle differences in housing tenure can remarkably influence housing choices and...
View ArticleOutside, looking in: structure of the European city Part 1
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards… Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it...
View ArticleOutside, looking in: structure of the European city, Part 2
[Continued from Part 1, posted yesterday] Throughout Europe, up they went — in Glasgow and London, in Paris and Lyon and Marseille, in Milan and Brussels and Malmo and everywhere else. Council housing...
View ArticleThe homeless magnet
Now that Los Angeles has acquiesced in a judicial decision forbidding the city from rousting vagrants, will the city become a magnet for America‘s homeless? Desperately seeking Los Angeles As I...
View ArticleMore bedrooms mean more babies
If an economist is a person who is baffled because he cannot explain why people don’t walk up escalators, is then a demographer a person who cannot satisfy himself that more bedrooms mean more babies?...
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