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I’ve been doing some intense travel this week so a shorter digest.
Andrew Manshel, one of the absolute best thinkers and doers when it comes to creating thriving public spaces, made some interesting comments in the latest issue of the American Downtown Revitalization Review. Manshel was the longtime number two person at New York City’s famed Bryant Park, and is the auth...
That America has worse leaders today than it did in the past is a widely shared sentiment. Diagnosing what’s happened to American leadership over the years has been a theme of my work, ranging from my writing on the old WASP est...
It’s popular today to say, “It’s the phones, stupid!” to explain a range of social dynamics ranging from teenage depression to the birth dearth to the shrinking number of friends people have today. I support moves like banning phones from schools.
But while it seems likely smart phones and social media have played a role in some of these, I’ve been skeptical of the ove...
Data centers rapidly became unpopular on both the right and left. This is being treated as irrational or a result of misinformation by some in the policy classes. But the backlash, if not entirely justified, has rational bases, and the data center industry overplayi...
Communities often seem to follow a story arc of growth and prosperity followed by decline and struggles. Why is it that places so often can’t sustain themselves fiscally and economically?
My podcast guest today has a theory on that. He’s Charles Marohn, the founder of the Strong Towns...