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Cities are fascinating. This blog explores the economy, society, communities, people, businesses, organizations, infrastructure, civil society and government of cities -- and the tensions and connections between them. (More...)

I try to post twice per week; I also write a weekly guest-blog entry Mondays at the Creative Class Blog, republished on the Globe and Mail website

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Recent Posts

• Worldwide, cities are good for women
• Maybe meeting expectations makes “cities” happy
• Finally, a city celebrates its successes
• The coming blurred boundaries between work and home
• The wacky and weird of living in an Olympic host city
• Libraries as public 3rd places
• Think small: A non-market housing supply solution?

Recent Comments

• Wendy Waters on Maybe meeting expectations makes "cities" happy
• Urbesaereperennius on Maybe meeting expectations makes "cities" happy
• Wendy Waters on Libraries as public 3rd places
• Urbesaereperennius on Libraries as public 3rd places
• US Postal Service’s Infrastructure: How can we maintain and expand our public realm? « A Connecticut Yankee Out West on Libraries as public 3rd places

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Popular Ponderings

• Comparing cities through surnames
• Satellite Cities - Something to Watch
• Bikes, Boston and attracting talent
• McMansions and historic neighborhoods
• Tales of two border cities
• High Rise Condo Sprawl
• Judging a City by Its Airport ...continued at CCG blog
• Race, class and sprawl

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Archive for December, 2009

Resiliant Canadian Home Prices–Alternative Theory

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Unlike the housing market crash in the USA, in Canada the average home price is reaching record highs, or is already there depending upon how you measure it and adjust for inflation. Market watchers are starting to cry “bubble!” They are predicting a burst, or at least a noticeable slow down soon.  (Good article […]

Gentrification and diversity

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

The challenge as many North American metro areas urbanize — evolve into higher density, urban playgrounds — is maintaining diversity in these new and renovated neighbourhoods.
An article by Aaron Renn of the Dallas Morning News is circulating among the urban bloggers that notes how “White” some of the cities often considered models for future urban […]