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Contrasts 26 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
I went to to see the "Never Built: Los Angeles" exhibit yesterday. These collections are always of some historical interest. And we get to experience the relief of knowing that this stuff was never bu...
What do we know? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:39 am
Creativity and innovation are hard to measure. Sometimes success is not immediately apparent. Forbes' Rich Karlgaard cites the Apple Newton as an apparent flop in its day but also a scientific success...
Entrepreneurs and diversification 23 Aug 2013 | 02:27 am
Diversification prompts resilience. It's a common sense notion but it's nice to see research that corroborates the idea that the notion applies to cities. They are more likely to survive if their port...
What to do? 20 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
NYU's Solly Angel argues that city planners should do what they can to attain "orderly expansion." He wants major infrastructure trunk lines (water supply, sewage, highways, etc.) to be planned and la...
Politics without romance 18 Aug 2013 | 05:08 am
Many people have puzzled over the seeming contradiction between the fact that approval ratings of the US Congress are near single digits but incumbents keep being re-elected. The simple story is that...
Loopy 14 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
We have to focus and concentrate to not call the Elon Musk "Hyperloop...(Imagine paying $20 and sitting down inside a Space Age capsule in Los Angeles. About half an hour later, you're in sight of the...
NY City taxis 11 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
The LA Times reports "New York's biggest financial winners -- cabdrivers." The value of a NYC taxi medallion (permit to operate in closed market) has risen to $1.3 million and has recently outpaced t...
Bay Area news 7 Aug 2013 | 04:13 am
I have looked at the proposed Bay Area Plan (by the SF Bay Area MTC and ABAG) and can report it is awful. Cliche-ridden and uninformed are among its faults. Throw in counterproductive. Housing afforda...
Stop the shovel brigade 7 Aug 2013 | 12:20 am
Industrial policy is risky for the well known reasons that it avoids capital markets (the only institution we have for allocating scarce capital) and compounds the problem by politicizing investment c...
Wrong way 5 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
Preference aggregation is a huge problem. When transacting is out of reach, we get politics as the default -- and all the grievances that go with it. Today's NY Times Sunday Dialogue ponders "Can Sub...
