Market trends

Cities face challenges associated with rising values, an influx of more educated residents, and gentrification. Here's what cities can do.

Housing in cities centers have increased in value by 50 percent more than surrounding metro areas in the last two decades, according to the financial rating agency Fitch.

Walmart's need to urbanize its home town is the shot that will be heard in suburbs across this land.

Since my was published in 2012 in what was then New Urban News, the concept has rapidly gained interest from the private and public sectors across the country.

The US has more golf courses than the market can support. We could repurpose many of them to benefit communities.

A trend toward more compact, walkable, living and working, both in suburbs and in cities, is combined with a rebound effect from the recession that includes some new low-density development. The former trend is larger than the latter.

Land use regulations and trillions of dollars in existing public infrastructure make alternatives to sprawl extremely difficult outside of a historic city or town.