Industry Insight
These posts include my insight on the meaning and significance of recent events and changes in how we live, work, learn and shop. You can read by topic or key word, as shown at right.
An Heretical Question: Do Financial Districts Still Matter?
I was reviewing the recovery plans for the four major downtowns on the West Coast- Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles- and found that...
The Densest, Best Educated and Most Technical Cities Will Be Those Most Affected by Work-From-Home
Some interesting statistics from this study: Work-from-home ("WFH") increases in denser cities, with places like Brooklyn, Berkeley and DC near the top of the list....
How Do We Kill Off Bad Retail and Replace It With Housing?
It's not often you see a combination of tenants this close to the bottom. This is a photo from Wheaton Way, an ailing commercial strip...
What Re-Watching “Suits” Tells Us About Reversing the Urban Doom Loop
Recently "Suits" was Netflix's third most-viewed show, and re-watching the first season is like opening a time capsule of how we used to work and...
Let’s Build Housing Under Freeway Ramps
Walking in Portland this week, I was struck by how much vacant land there is under the I-405 freeway immediately adjacent to the Pearl District,...
Where CNU and Strong Towns Should Have Met: Greenville, SC
I just drove down here, and I've seen more cool urban "stuff" in one hour here than I saw in two days in Charlotte. It...