Cities are about people
Cities are the physical manifestation of labor markets. They exist to minimize the distance between labor and capital. In their basest form, cities are pools of talent and skill. The city lives and dies by the people who populate it.
The Green Line Economic Impact Study is completely meaningless
Last month, Citizens for Modern Transit released an economic impact study for the Green Line, the proposed 5.6-mile north-south expansion of the MetroLink light rail system. Its headline finding is that building the Green Line will have an overall “economic impact” of $2.9 billion.
Stop ceding our cities to the people destroying them
The Forest Park–DeBaliviere MetroLink station has been problematic recently. A woman was shot and killed there on May 11th, followed by another shooting the following weekend. Local news articles quote concerned residents and commuters who are hesitant to use MetroLink in the future.
An urbanist, but not a progressive
Earlier this year, YouTuber Ray Delahanty (“CityNerd”) asked how it’s possible for one to be an urbanist and a Republican: