Jim Russell

Global money follows transit access.

Death, as millennials have taught us, is life in the suburbs.

Does supply or demand better map where the money is flowing?

Japanese companies are bringing jobs to Alabama—and it's all too good to be true.

On Tony Hsieh and the pseudoscience of "collisions."

The poor, whom we expect to move in order to improve, tend to stay put.

Oregon's largest city is full of overeducated and underemployed young people.

Build an emerald city. Attract the best and brightest with glorious amenities. They will come and do nothing.

The Harlem Renaissance wasn't a place, but an era of migration. It would have happened even without New York City.

We know that people make places, but does it also work the other way?