Must Watch: The Panic of 2008

I’m kicking off a series of posts at Forbes today about the housing discussion. The series is partially to get a lot of thoughts together in one thread. Lately I’ve been saying again and again to anyone that will listen, that we need to tackle some key problems today — like the notion that we’re […]

Realizing Reform: Free Markets, Better Government, and the Common Good

This is the final post in a series on density first posted in 2012 at Seattle’s Land Use Code.  Living in densely populated cities is better for the environment but it can also be good for the economy, for government, and the development of people’s potential to be moral and compassionate. Advocates for density and urbanists […]

Where Would Jesus Live: The Moral Dimension of Cities.

This is the third post in a series on density first posted in 2012 at Seattle’s Land Use Code. Tomorrow’s post is the closing post, Realizing Reform: Free Markets, Better Government, and the Common Good Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, Huis Clos, is probably best remembered for the phrase, “l’enfer c’est les autres,” often translated as, “hell is other people.” In the play […]