Category Archives: Land Use

A thread runs between many newspaper stories: Higher energy prices are reordering everything from international trade flows to housing affordability. Too bad our Agencies are responding so sluggishly. Continue reading →

A WaPo story highlights the threat of converting Montana forest into masses of McLodges. But there’s more to the story: With rising energy prices, developers are creating the ghost (non) towns of tomorrow. Continue reading →

The historical core of Savannah, Ga., is one of the great urban places in the United States. Modern-day Virginia could learn a few lessons from James Oglethorpe’s unique experiment. Continue reading →

Sooner or later, an economy built on wildly unequal incomes, cheap energy and debt-fueled mass over- consumption will collapse. Mass denial will not change this reality. Continue reading →

Andrew Jackson had his “kitchen” cabinet. Tim Kaine has his “sub” cabinet: five secretaries whose job is to marshal state resources to promote smart growth. Continue reading →