What Causes the Housing Crisis?
Housing costs have outrun incomes for decades. The cause is not mysterious: zoning restrictions, NIMBYism, and political economy that...
February 2025
How Urban Planning Works: Zoning, Housing, and the Shape of Cities
How does urban planning work? Explore zoning laws, housing scarcity, Jane Jacobs vs Le Corbusier, Robert Moses, transit-oriented development, and...
May 2024
Why Cities Are the Future: The Economics and Culture of Urban Life
Edward Glaeser calls cities humanity's greatest invention. With 68% of the world urbanizing by 2050, explore the economics of agglomeration, the...
March 2024
What Is Urban Planning?
Urban planning shapes how cities grow, who benefits from that growth, and who gets displaced.
July 2022
What Is the Cobra Effect in Urban Planning: When Cities Get Infrastructure Wrong
Why do highways increase traffic? Why does urban renewal destroy neighborhoods? Urban planning failures reveal what systems thinking teaches about...