Land Use
Taking Land or Just Borrowing It With Interest?
Why are environmentalists in favor of compensating voluntary land use restrictions but not involuntary ones?
Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods
How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility"
Wrecking Property Rights
How cities use eminent domain to seize property for private developers.
Ground Zero in Urban Decline
Cincinnati isn't just a town down on its luck. It's the future of the American city.
City Views
Urban studies legend Jane Jacobs on gentrification, the New Urbanism, and her legacy.
Impure Thoughts
Waiting for perfectly "clean" opportunities to apply your principles means you could lose them altogether.
The Pleasantville Solution
The war on "sprawl" promises "livability" but delivers repression, intolerance--and more traffic.