The New York City mayor's policies rest on rent-seeking and bribery. The latest example is his hotel policy.

The more cities grow, the more productive and prosperous they become.

Democrats and Republicans have all launched competing housing plans. But the common denominator is that they see the need for more housing.

Coal is not West Virginia's future. But what will take its place?

Protests have erupted to protect Hong Kong's liberalized economy and political system. This is a fight worth having.

U.S. cities are generally solvent - or not - for very specific reasons.

Foreign investment should be viewed as another form of housing demand in cities - and not a bad one.

As with the car market, the creation of new housing means used housing can filter down, to be bought or rented by lower income groups.

Big companies used to run their own monopoly towns. Now they take a more incremental approach to city development.

Building more housing will inevitably cause more congestion. The answer is to price the space where the congestion occurs.

The bureaucracy favors single-family homes over condos, and for no good reason.

And it's not just one regulation that made the city expensive. It's all of them.

The American West still offers the best mixture of urbanization and stunning geography.

California and Oregon both consider state housing bills that will allow dense development near transit. Can this become model housing legislation elsewhere?

Many planners have their minds made up on which cities do and don't work. But multiple factors make the debate complicated.

I took a 3-year, 30-city cross-country tour to study American cities. Here's what I learned along the way about our nation's demography, housing and culture.

Selling air rights above public facilities would create financial windfalls for city governments, and encourage more efficient land use.

New Yorkers' quality-of-life suffers from the negative impacts of cars. This is partly because residents themselves won't relinquish car ownership.

The agencies were sewers of waste and abuse. So why are state lawmakers trying to revive them?

Zoning reform is evolving from an economics issue into a social justice issue.

Texas' "Big 4" have rivalries in food, sports and economic development. But which of them is the best place to live?

In installment #7 of the America's Progressive Developers series, a Memphis arts non-profit turns a gargantuan former Sears warehouse into a "vertical urban village."

Home prices are growing higher and faster in Austin than other Texas cities. The cause is regulation.

The Bay Area would likely be denser - and a lot more urbanized.