The Future of the Gas Tax
Originally published on New Geography For years, the Federal Government has been approving general budget stopgaps to fund highway...
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Ranking the Cities With the Greatest National Appeal to College Graduates
In 2018 the Wall Street Journal published this piece that examined where graduates from top colleges move after they finish college. It...
Cultural Curiosities: The Museum of Bad Art
With a carefully curated collection of artistic mishaps, the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) may be the world's best monument to artistic...
Saudi Arabia's Cultural Literacy Crisis
Saudi Arabia is democratizing. In 2019 for the first time ever women are driving, the cinemas are open, and young people are mixing in...
What the Midwest Can Learn From the Middle East
Originally published in 2016 on RealClearPolicy Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly the pit stop of choice for an impressive laundry list of...
The Top Major League Baseball Stadiums, Ranked by the Fans
For months now we've been collecting responses to a poll asking fans to rank their favorite Major League ballparks. The results are in!...
Pete Rose Does Not Belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame
In 1989 Pete Rose was banned from baseball, and with his shunning lost any hope of ever being enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, at...
Should Charlotte and Portland Bet Big On Major League Baseball?
While it's unclear exactly when baseball will expand next, robust conversations in Charlotte and Portland have crowned those cities the...
The Urban Meyer Difference and the Legacy of Tressel-Meyer at Ohio State
The 2019 cohort of America’s college graduates are entering the workforce with no memories of a time when Michigan football was...
In Milton Keynes, the UK's Culture War Rages Onward After Brexit
In Milton Keynes, perhaps the most radical of Britain’s post-Second World War “New Towns,” the battle over Brexit and the culture war...
The Fundamental Failing of Dave Martinez' Washington Nationals
When Washington fired Dusty Baker in 2017 after leading the Nationals to first-round playoff exits following back-to-back 95 and 97-win...
Poll: The State of Baseball, 2019
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The New Corporate Art of the Baseball Stadium
Part One: The Corporate Game Although it is no longer America’s highest-revenue sport, baseball is still known around the world as...
The Innovation Population Takes the Field, Storming Over the Population Planners
Like a front line of untuned and misshapen trumpets, a chorus of discordant pessimism blares negativity about humanity’s future. David...
Poll: Rank the Major League Baseball Stadiums (2019)
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The 2018 Baltimore Orioles Were One of the Most Overrated Baseball Teams of All Time
At 47-115, the 2018 Baltimore Orioles were widely pitied as the worst team in baseball in 2018. Like many cellar-dwellers in recent...
Small Minds Prevail for Now, but Barry Bonds Was the Greatest Hitter of All Time
In three years the baseball Hall of Fame will transition from being a museum celebrating the history of the greatest players and feats in...
Capital Frontiers' 2019 "Best Of" American Urbanism
Downtown Asheville, North Carolina: One of the best vacation destinations in the United States, Asheville features a hilly downtown with...
Where Have all the Errors Gone?
This is the story of the decline of baseball's premier defensive statistic – the error. In this study, we have tracked how and why the...
America Sings the Small Town Blues
While New York City may symbolize the American Dream, Norman Rockwell and the American small town still epitomizes the country’s spirit....
The Paleo Cities of Tomorrow
Ten years removed from the Great Recession, America is gaining perspective on its impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban...
Techno Fixing the Urban Zone
In 2008, when Chicago inked a deal to privatize its parking meters, a chorus of groans ensued. To say that the deal was widely panned is...
Let's Build a City
We are building a new city.
How Much Would Building a New City Cost?
If we built a new city in the modern era, it would be very expensive to do it from scratch. While most cities evolve organically and do...
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