Category Archives: Cities

Rent Control Advocates Have No Understanding Of Urban Dynamics

Rent control may sound compassionate, but it quietly destroys the very incentives that make cities vibrant and livable. Urban prosperity depends on ambition, risk-taking, and investment—forces that thrive only when people are rewarded for effort. When politicians like Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu impose rent caps, they short-circuit this dynamic, freezing supply and draining vitality from neighborhoods. Just as a village that penalizes beauty and success loses its drive, cities that punish property owners for responding to market signals end up stagnant and poor. The truth is simple: housing affordability comes from growth, not restriction.

One of Chicago’s Worst Mayors

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a mediocre parasite: Of course, as is the case with all politicians and civil servants, they excel at hating and blaming successful business people, milking the taxpayer, and sucking the economic life from whatever they can is their modus operandi. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is currently set to receive a pensionContinue reading “One of Chicago’s Worst Mayors”

Three Million Dead Is Boston’s Reality in the Face of a Real Catastrophe

It is disheartening that Boston Metropolitan Area city councils, the mayors, and academics dedicate substantial resources to achieving “zero-CO₂ emissions” to address a climate challenge that, by their own models, requires global cooperation to impact total CO₂ levels—which is not remotely possible this century. Multiple scientific assessments agree that under current national policies and weakContinue reading “Three Million Dead Is Boston’s Reality in the Face of a Real Catastrophe”

Cities as Demographic Sinks: Solving Urban Fertility for Earth and Beyond

Abstract This essay argues that cities—on Earth and in the future beyond—function as demographic sinks, reliant on constant in-migration to offset suppressed fertility. Drawing from historical, contemporary, and speculative examples, I explore how low urban fertility undermines economic resilience and poses existential challenges to space colonization. Mars is presented as an impractical first step, givenContinue reading “Cities as Demographic Sinks: Solving Urban Fertility for Earth and Beyond”

Cities and EVs: A Perfect Match

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is one of the most significant shifts in transportation since the early 20th century when automobiles replaced horse-drawn carriages. Unlike the past transition, which occurred in a developing America with minimal infrastructure costs, today’s shift from fossil fuels to electricity involves a complex overhaul of existing energy systems, requiringContinue reading “Cities and EVs: A Perfect Match”

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Why Cities Need Local Power Solutions

Cities rely on extensive and interconnected power grids to support daily life, including transportation, healthcare, communication, and commerce. While these grids are marvels of engineering, they are also fragile systems with significant vulnerabilities. Cities that depend on long power grids—those that span vast distances to deliver electricity from power plants and solar and win farmsContinue reading “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Why Cities Need Local Power Solutions”

Building a Decentralized America: The Role of Redlining, Racism, and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956

Abstract This paper explores the interconnected roles of government-supported redlining and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 in the decentralization of American cities. While these policies were justified by economic growth, urban renewal, and national defense, they entrenched systemic racial and economic inequalities. Both Black Americans and poor whites faced displacement and disinvestment as redliningContinue reading “Building a Decentralized America: The Role of Redlining, Racism, and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956”

Tokyo Is Still Not Safe

While the risks may seem exaggerated to some, Tokyo faces real vulnerabilities to catastrophic events that leave it wide open to a Carrington Event, EMP attack, or pandemic. A Carrington Event (a powerful solar storm) or an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack would devastate Tokyo. Either event would disable GPS, electronics, communications, and the electrical grid,Continue reading “Tokyo Is Still Not Safe”