Demographia

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Rating Housing Affordability The 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey covers 325 metropolitan...

Comment in Response to "Consolidation is Key to Save NJ" http://njtoday.net/2010/05/20/consolidation-is-key-to-save-nj/ Consolidat...

The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has produced a housing and transportation index (the "H&T Index"), something that...

Re: Huge Land Bank Puts Squeeze on Buyers< http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/huge-land-bank-puts-squeeze-on-buyers-20100317-qflq.html ...

How Cars Are Killing Us Around the World http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010/03/11/how-cars-are-killing-us-around-the-world/comment-page-1/...

A Quarter Floor in a High-Rise Block? The Dreadful State of Australian Housing Affordability By Wendell Cox A new report by Bankwest shows t...

Recommend not using this service. I had used it for a few years and there were a number of service breakdowns. Worse, however, the company b...

Sound Transit's Rail Projects Sounder Commuter Rail and Link light Rail as of 2008 12 years into its Sound Move Ten Year Plan (1996-2006...

Bloomberg News reports today (20090622) that $450 million of municipal bonds that provided most of the funding for Las Vegas Monorail had th...

I had the pleasure of watching the movie on a flight from Dhaka to Bahrain. I had just been inside three separate slums in Dhaka and have se...

Mitsubishi has announced development of a lithium battery driven car, to be sold within two years. The car, the "MIEV Plug-In Electric ...

REGULATION BREEDS SEIZURE IN A TWO SPEED HOUSING MARKET Originally Posted March 7, 2007 (On the Heartland) Summary Much has been written abo...

The American Dream: For 300 Million This week the United States celebrates its 300 millionth resident. Never in human history has one nation...

Serious Questions About “A Heavy Load” Report A report by the Center for Housing Policy relies on data that is at odds with consumer expendi...

One of the most enduring urban planning mantras is coordinating land use and transportation. While no one can dispute the desirability of co...

Winnipeg Toys with Planning Disaster In a Winnipeg Free Press commentary today, I argue that the city of Winnipeg’s slow development approv...

Time Lost in Transit: Drag on Canadian Economy It’s time to stop pretending about transit. That is the message of the new Statistics Canada ...

Most people, if asked, would probably respond that buses or subways are the most frequently used method of mass transit in the United States...

UPS Chairman and CEO Michael Eskew recently addressed the Philadelphia World Affairs Council on the importance of transportation infrastruct...

Vancouver: Containing Opportunity, Not Sprawl It is probably too much to expect The Economist to make sense in assessing suburbanization, w...

EUROPE: COMMUTING FASTER IN SUBURBS THAN CITIES There are few public policy issues more driven my myth than land use and the currently fashi...

An Urban Planning Driven Recession? By Wendell Cox Recent national economic news has focused on the softness in the housing market. Last mon...

The EU Sprawl Report: Rewrite Needed For any who perceive that “urban sprawl” (a pejorative term for suburbanization) is an American phen...

Re: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/House-price-to-income-ratios-pd20090421-RAV6W?OpenDocument Christopher Joye of Austra...

Suburban Housing More GHG Intensive? Researchers at the University of Toronto estimated differences in GHG emissions between a typical low...

This 5th comprehensive edition includes: • Ranking of the largest world urban areas (over 2,000,000 population). • Population, urban land ar...

The Phoenix metropolitan area is sometimes erroneously characterized as having a responsive (traditional or liberal) land use market. In fac...

It is popular for analysts to use the US Consumer Expenditures data to make points about the costs of living between metropolitan areas, es...