Is the Big Ten or the SEC a Better Academic Conference?
In 1835, Ohio and Michigan fought a near-bloodless battle over the boundary between their two states that left one dead and tensions...
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Can We Create the Most Entertaining Baseball Team of All Time?
Can we create the most entertaining baseball team of all time? To do this, we'll want to think beyond just dominant on-the-field...
NCAA Power Five Conference Academic Rankings
Here are the most up-to-date rankings of the five NCAA power conferences in median academic standards among the schools. For comparison:...
Journeying Through the Playoffs with the 2019 World Series Champion Washington Nationals
An Investment of the Heart Investing in a sports team as a spectator can be stupid and painful. When you do so, you’re investing your...
Forced Population Control is an Evil Idea that Won't Solve Climate Change
David Attenborough, according to a recent article for the UK’s Telegraph, has given up on society’s potential for good. In it, he argues...
These are the Most Debated Cities in the World
Some people love them, some people hate them. Earlier, we published a consensus set of rankings of the "best" cities in the world, as...
What is the Best City in the World?
We aggregated 22 different sets of rankings of the "best" cities in the world, as measured by a range of criteria - dynamism, livability,...
Our Oil Supply is Virtually Infinite - and Oil is Our Greatest Renewable Resource
Thanks to emerging oil technologies, the era of energy as a tool for political manipulation is over – thus ending an era that commenced...
Saudi Arabia's NEOM is Breeding a New City Built Around Genetic Engineering
Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city....
Drink Like a Major Leaguer: Which Washington Nationals Have the Best Taste in Alcohol?
During the height of the COVID-19 quarantine, the Washington Nationals, their coaches, and a few ex-members got together to celebrate...
How to Plan Cities in the Age of COVID-19: Part One
By Roger Weber This will be the first part of a series in as many parts as it takes me to sort out some thoughts on how city planning can...
How Do You Build a New City? Eight Steps to Realizing a Sustainable Metropolis
So you've got some land and want to build a new city? Or maybe you just know you want to build a city, but you don't have the land yet....
KAEC vs. NEOM: Inside the Development War Between Saudi Arabia's Sibling New Cities
As one of the most conservative countries on earth takes on the 21st century, a pair of government-initiated new cities are among its...
Meet the Major League Baseball Commissioner: Marie Antoinette
As baseball hemorrhages fans amid record profits for the sport, MLB’s senior level central management seem determined to quicken its...
Which US Cities Have the Biggest Downtowns?
Among its many inventions, one of America's most interesting gifts to the rest of the world was its invention of the modern maga-city...
The South's Big Cities Moment
Originally published on New Geography 2017's tragic events in Charlottesville kickstarted a somber debate about the appropriate way to...
The 2019 Nationals Beat the Toughest Competition to Win the 2nd-Most Improbable World Series of the
Even before revelations around the Astros' cheating en route to the 2017 World Series, 2018 ALCS, and possibly the 2019 World Series,...
Can Misty Copeland Save American Ballet?
Ballet got more front page news coverage last year than it ever has in decades thanks to an embarrassing controversy involving one of the...
Would Abraham Lincoln Support America's Trade War Against China?
Before he led the country across a five-year struggle that freed the slaves and reunited the union, and before he was even elected...
An Invitation for Investment: Could a New Privately Developed City Save Zimbabwe?
As we've explored potential locations for the next great new global city, a million-to-one longshot is rising to the surface as a...
Rob Manfred's Bullying Response to Congress Was an Indefensible Offense to American Small Towns
MLB's bullying response to a Congressional statement defending small communities may be the worst, most callous, and most anti-baseball...
The Astros Are Penn State
When Penn State fans chant “We Are…”, you might as well fill in the back end of the statement with “the Astros”. Based on this week’s...
Battle of the Titans of Urban Planning: Andres Duany vs. Rem Koolhaas
In 1999 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the two titans of contemporary urban planning had an epic debate: New Urbanism vs....
America Has the Most Affordable Housing in the World
Housing affordability continues to be one of the chief drivers of economic growth in America, with a lower cost of housing freeing up...
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