Perspectives
New York Tomorrow
“You can never step into the same river twice, since the river keeps changing and you keep changing.” The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus could have been referring to New York. He would...
Topic: Cities
Perspectives
Seattle Housing: A Case Study in Crisis Creation
Kelly Lyles is a member of a dying breed: the mom-and-pop Seattle landlord. Her kind has become the target of an increasingly radical city council that has slammed the rental housing industry with a...
Features
How American Cities Can Benefit from “Land Value Capture” Instruments in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
Why Now? The financial pressure cities are experiencing due to COVID-19 only amplifies the pre-existing historical underinvestment in municipal infrastructure and adds urgency to cities’ search for...
Features
Vibrancy and Property Performance of Major U.S. Employment Centers
Since the turn of the century, the spatial pattern of real property development in the United States has changed. Many central cities across the country have attracted impressive amounts of jobs,...
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note – Global Cities Issue
Change — like death and taxes — is certain and inevitable, so much so that it is even a fundamental premise of economic and valuation theory. Although no one has a crystal ball, it is,...
Features
London After Brexit
Editor's Note: This article was written prior to the events of March 29, 2017, when Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50. As a former imperial capital, London has had global significance...
Perspectives
Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Future of our Cities
I met my business partner Dan Gans in 1972 when we were both freshman at Gettysburg College. One year after graduating, we decided to start a development business together. After studying the entire...
Resource Reviews
Resource Review: 24-Hour Cities: Real investment performance, not just promises
Book by: Hugh F. Kelly, Ph.D., CRE (© 2016, Routeledge; 326 Pages) Hugh Kelly reminds us in more than one place in 24 Hour Cities that “a list of ingredients does not constitute a recipe.” In...
Resource Reviews
Resource Review: The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us by Joel Kotkin Joel Kotkin is a significant persona and one of the more prolific writers on the non-politically correct side of the “urbanism”...
