What City Observatory did this week 1. Displacement by decline. Akron Planning Director Jason Segedy offers a guest post on our misplaced obsession with gentrification. He argues that pundits and urban policy people are fighting the wrong battle. Too much…
The Oregon Constitution exempts refunds and debt repayment from the limits on how revenue from taxing cars and fuel is spent Note: What follows is a hypothesis and a question. What’s presented here is not a legal opinion, nor does…
An obsession with gentrification obscures the urban problem: concentrated poverty Editor’s Note: We’re again pleased to offer a guest commentary from Akron Planning Director Jason Segedy, who has some keen insights on cities, poverty and neighborhood change. Like City Observatory, Segedy…
What City Observatory did this week 1. The limits of Nieman Marcus environmentalism. It’s fashionable to demonstrate one’s green credibility by conspicuous acts of non-consumption, but framing our environmental problems as fundamentally those of personal or moral failures misses the…
Where are walkable local shopping districts in your city? There are just six shopping days left until Christmas; while much of our shopping is done on-line or with at big box stores and national chains, many consumers look to support…