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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
Presented at the 9th RED Business Forum, Athens, Greece, October 13, 2014
It is an honor and a pleasure to be here today in Athens, for this very special conference. I’m taken with the...