One of the most heavily reported stories of the post-housing bubble economy has been the decline in the American homeownership rate, which h...

In a recent post , Daniel Kay Hertz examines residential filtering, the process by which housing units depreciate and therefore become avail...

On Twitter, Cap'n Transit appreciated my focus on Stamford in the previous post, so to continue on the prior topic with an ongoing foc...

1970s suburb, Birmingham, AL. The 70s, as much as any decade from the 1920s to the 1990s, has gotten a bad rap in contemporary urban pl...

I've been reading through the 1912 " Plan of the City of Hartford " by the legendary firm Carrère and Hastings, a document wh...

In a prior post , I examined minimum lot sizes as a general concept with reference to a few examples.  Another way of approaching the subjec...

Let's consider two hypothetical cities. For convenience, I'll call them "Hartford" and "Nashville."  Both are st...