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Prescience on Detroit Bankruptcy
Motor City Industrial Park I’ve been doing summer reading and will soon post my review of Jane Jacobs’ classic 1961 book on urban revitalization The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In the...
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Book Review: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Why do some American cities diversify, improve, innovate and grow? While other cities – most recently and egregiously Detroit – stagnate, shrink, and ultimately fail financially? I’m way outside of my...
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Book Review: Cities And The Wealth Of Nations by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs begins her Cities And The Wealth Of Nations with a fundamental critique of mainstream economics. Cities – and not nations – she argues, are the fundamental wealth producers, and therefore...
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Las Vegas Tourists And The Downtown Project Antidote
Who Killed Las Vegas? I’m the one with the shirt on I recently stayed at a hotel and lost money at the poker tables in Las Vegas[1] situated squarely in the downtown monoculture of the Fremont...
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Downtown Revitalization – The Role Of A Billionaire
In downtown Las Vegas Nevada recently I visited a small business that is the opposite of everything we normally associate with Sin City. The small business made me think about the role of both...
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Conflict of Interest and Moral Codes
I was under the impression that we all agreed that government officials should do everything to eliminate both the reality and the appearance of acting for financial gain before, during, and after...
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Book Review: Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
I judged this book by the arresting title Dark Age Ahead, and decided that – in my current frame of mind – I had to read it.1 Jane Jacobs wrote this is 2004, and the book has a bit of the feel of a...
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Book Review: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Why do some American cities diversify, improve, innovate and grow? While other cities – most recently and egregiously Detroit – stagnate, shrink, and ultimately fail financially? I’m way outside of my...
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