California Lawmakers Might Resurrect Failed 'Urban Renewal' Program
In practice, these programs have empowered local governments to use eminent domain to seize property to redistribute to developers.
Urban Renewal
Politics Is Getting in the Way of What Makes Cities Great
Healthy cities are a boon not just for those who live in them, but for our entire society.
The Nanny State vs. The Nanny Goat
Peak goat is finally achieved as goat yoga appears in a taxpayer-subsidized, goat-themed baseball stadium.
Will Crony Capitalists Make Detroit Great Again?
Their schemes to bilk taxpayers in the name of development are getting more outrageous.
Crony Capitalists in Detroit Are Ripping Off Taxpayers
The city's revival is mainly reviving the pocket books of connected billionaires
In Our Uber-ed Out Future, Cities Won't Be Covered With Ugly Parking Garages
Next generation of ride-sharing will make cities more efficient, solve mass transit problems.
Another Troubled City, Another Subsidized Stadium To the Rescue
Perpetually broke Hartford bets big-and stupid-on minor-league ballpark.
Does Affordable Housing Perpetuate Racial Segregation?
A new lawsuit claims New York's affordable housing program discriminates against blacks and Latinos.
Urban Redevelopment in California Back With Few Protections
Bill does little to limit agencies' ability to float debt, use eminent domain
Freddie Gray Is a Casualty of Baltimore's Police Unions
The police's privilege and self-protectiveness is on rich display in the whole sordid saga.
Baltimore's Long History of Failed Development and Urban Renewal
Police abuse might have lit the fuse, but decades of awful top-down planning helped create the explosion.
How Urban Renewal Destroys Neighborhoods
What happens when central planners bulldoze communities and try to build better ones? Trampled property rights, dislocated families, wasted money, and failed development.
Is Detroit's New Light Rail Line America's Greatest Boondoggle?
A $137 million three-mile train is coming to a nearly deserted avenue in a bankrupt city.
Can Detroit's Rich Business Kings Save the City?
Not if their grand plans require grand corporate welfare
Rand Paul Won't Be Able To Save Detroit
Economic Freedom Zones can't survive the regulatory state.
No Utopia for Detroit
Until the Motor City fixes its services, liberal and libertarian renewal ideas will remain fantasy
How to Break an American City
The municipal bankruptcy mess is heading to a local government near you.
Rush Hour Remedy
Prescription for unjamming traffic jams: A unique combination of technology and economics.
'Creative Class' Aren't Urban Saviors After All
Beards and artisanal jam won't save the rust belt
Why Cities Like Cleveland Die: They Refuse to Emulate Success While Persisting in Failure
Earlier this month, Cleveland's West Side Market celebrated its 100th anniversary with a fundraising party designed to raise dollars to help maintain the facility.
Detroit Needs a Regime Change
The Motor City must be liberated from its moribund government if it is going to survive.
