California Needs To Revive Progressive Practices – September 3, 2010
"California futurist Joel Kotkin anticipates the unequivocal restoration of the United States as the most dynamic country in the world. With its population increasing at a record-setting pace, he argues, the U.S. will grow younger as the rest of the world grows older."

Why the Great Plains are Great Once Again – July 19, 2010
"The cities of the plains—from Dallas in the south through Omaha, Des Moines, and north to Fargo—have enjoyed strong job growth and in-migration from the rest of the country."

Media Release - Improving Life from Telecommuting – October 6, 2009
Spurred by advances in information technology, especially the spread of broadband services, telecommuting is already the fastest growing mode of getting from home to work.

Traffic Congestion, Time, Money & Productivity – September 22, 2009
Congestion Costs: This is why such serious attention is paid to the Texas Transportation Institute’s (TTI) Annual Mobility Report, which estimates the costs of traffic congestion, principally the value of lost time as well as excess fuel costs. The fundamental premise, long a principle of transportation planning and policy, holds that more time spent traveling costs money, to employers, employees and shippers.

High-speed Rail in Canada: Decade of Debate Chugs On – August 7, 2009
"A new debate is emerging among Canadians about whether high-speed passenger trains are the answer to rising oil prices, traffic congestion, airport delays and environmental concerns."

The High Cost of Canada’s “Free” Parking – June 30, 2009
Senior Policy Analyst David Seymour and Transport Engineer Stuart Donovan make the case for removing minimum parking requirements from new developments, a reform that promises to improve economic efficiency, transportation, and social equality.

Media Release - Free Parking v. Sensible Cities – June 29, 2009
A new Frontier Centre backgrounder, How Free is Your Parking?, notes that so-called "free" parking has detrimental effects on economic development, undermine the transportation system, and come at a high cost to low-income households.

How Free is Your Parking? – June 29, 2009

Smart Growth Bill Repealed – June 23, 2009
"Decisions about the growth of communities should be made by local governments closest to the people living and working in these areas. Local governments can already adopt “smart growth” policies based on the desires of the community without a state-led effort that endorses such planning. This legislation would promote a one-size-fits-all approach to land use and planning that would not work across a state as large and diverse as Texas."

China Should Send Western Planners Home – December 29, 2008
Generally, Chinese urban planning policies have been a substantial contributor to the nation’s rising wealth. It is to be hoped that the advice of the western planners will continue to be respectfully listened to and largely ignored.

The Financial Crisis In Context – December 18, 2008
The financial collapse was not the long expected and inevitable collapse of a corrupt system. It rather can be attributed to two primary and very concentrated causes. Both causes could have been avoided with skillful regulation: one would have required more regulation, the other less. Finally, both causes were American, pure and simple.

From Rhetoric to Reality on Public Transport – December 15, 2008
People tend to adopt those products and practices that make their lives better. For those few (in the national context) who work in the largest downtown areas, transit makes their lives better. For those working elsewhere, cars do.

Go-Ahead For Urban Sprawl – December 10, 2008
The Victorian Government has all but given up on a long-standing pledge to contain Melbourne's urban sprawl, announcing another big expansion of the metropolitan boundary for new housing. Six years after setting a "clear boundary" for the city in the Melbourne 2030 policy, the Government has succumbed to a booming population, a housing shortage and resistance to high-density development in established suburbs.

Megacity, Schmegacity - It's Time For The Microcity! – November 20, 2008
The megacity was supposed to be more efficient and less costly, with a new arrondisement system that promised suburban-style service for everyone. But even with the best intentions, it's just created more layers of arrondo-bureaucracy, piled atop mega-bureaucracy, piled atop blue-collar-ocracy. It's become obvious that bigger is not more efficient. It's slower, more bureaucratic and less friendly.

End of Oil Won’t End Car Culture or Shape Cities – August 15, 2008
Why oil does not matter. Technology will save our suburban lifestyle.

Council Votes 7-4 to Expropriate Land – August 12, 2008
"The fair determination of any private transaction should and can only be characterized by two fundamental principles - the first that the transaction should be voluntary, and secondly that the price is between the maximum that the buyer will pay for it and the minimum that the buyer will accept. >"This is not fair. There's nothing fair about this transaction. Some may consider this extreme, but I look to this as theft."

What Does the End of Cheap Oil Mean to our Urban Future? – July 20, 2008
Why the urban catastrophists are wrong and society will adapt to higher oil prices through technology and natural changes in behaviour.

Tax Freeze Comes with a Cost – July 9, 2008
Officials in Winnipeg and other cities have discovered that keeping a lid on property taxes while hiking user fees can boost city coffers without inciting public riots.

Rural Tigers Transforming Manitoba Landscape – July 5, 2008
In spite of great odds, many Canadian rural communities, like in rural Manitoba, are experiencing an economic boom and are enjoying population growth, thanks in large part to an influx of newcomers and a regional oil boom.

Battle Over Eminent Domain Is Another Civil Rights Issue – May 25, 2008
Few policies have done more to destroy community and opportunity for minorities than eminent domain. The fact is that eminent-domain abuse is a crucial constitutional rights issue.