Does Population Change Drive Demand for Housing?
Most conversations about housing affordability define demand in terms of population change, but income is a far better measure.
Burgh Diaspora
The Beginning of the End for Silicon Valley
Will a lack of affordable housing hinder the growth of creative start-ups?
The Growing Disconnect Between Where You Live and Work
You might have fantasized before about making big money and living large in a place where costs are low, but what happens when things work the other way around?
Pittsburgh Exceptionalism and Japan's Economic Resilience
Don't judge a metro or a nation-state by its population numbers.
Seattle, the Incredible Shrinking City
Seattle is leading the way in the micro-housing movement as an affordable alternative to high-cost city living.
Yes, Washington, D.C., Is More Expensive Than New York City
Why shouldn't distant locales tied to jobs in the urban core count in a housing expenditure study?
Geography of the Urban Land Rush
Are technology companies willing to spend more for expensive urban real estate in order to attract cheaper talent?
Solving the Hispanic Mortality Paradox
Why do Hispanics die at slower rates than non-Hispanic whites in the United States?
A Global City of Eds and Meds
Why are people from all over the world watching tiny Rochester, Minnesota?
The Urban Geography of Globalization: Global Neighborhoods
Global money follows transit access.
Migration of Millennials to Urban Cores Is Displacing Residents
Death, as millennials have taught us, is life in the suburbs.
The Geography of Foreign Investment in Real Estate
Does supply or demand better map where the money is flowing?
The Political Geography of Economic Development
Japanese companies are bringing jobs to Alabama—and it's all too good to be true.
The Creative Class Boondoggle in Downtown Las Vegas
On Tony Hsieh and the pseudoscience of "collisions."
The Geography of Poverty and Migration
The poor, whom we expect to move in order to improve, tend to stay put.
Portlandia Paradox: Oregon Is Overeducated, Underemployed
Oregon's largest city is full of overeducated and underemployed young people.
No Innovation Without Migration: Portlandia Is Dying
Build an emerald city. Attract the best and brightest with glorious amenities. They will come and do nothing.
No Innovation Without Migration: The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance wasn't a place, but an era of migration. It would have happened even without New York City.
No Innovation Without Migration: Do Places Make People?
We know that people make places, but does it also work the other way?
No Innovation Without Migration: Breaking Convention
How do large dense cities foment innovation? The conventional wisdom on the subject is speculative at best.
No Innovation Without Migration
People bring their ideas with them when they move from place to place.
Poverty and Geography: The Myth of Racial Segregation
Migration, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality (not to mention class), can be a poverty-buster.