Perspectives

Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Future of our Cities

I met my business partner Dan Gans in 1972 when we were both freshman at Gettysburg College. One year after graduating, we decided to start a development business together. After studying the entire New York Metropolitan area for three years as we completed our post-graduate studies, we came to the conclusion that Hoboken would be… Read more

Resource Reviews

Resource Review: 24-Hour Cities: Real investment performance, not just promises

Book by: Hugh F. Kelly, Ph.D., CRE (© 2016, Routeledge; 326 Pages) Hugh Kelly reminds us in more than one place in 24 Hour Cities that “a list of ingredients does not constitute a recipe.” In his book, Kelly offers us a full-flavored, sit-down, multi-course meal of form and function, detail and design, ebb and… Read more

Resource Review: The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us

The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us by Joel Kotkin Joel Kotkin is a significant persona and one of the more prolific writers on the non-politically correct side of the “urbanism” debate. The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us puts him once more into the fray. By way of full disclosure,… Read more

Features

In the Age of Global Cities, Submarkets Still Matter

The Impact of Submarket Trends on Property Performance I. Introduction Location matters for how commercial real estate will perform over time. This statement will seem painfully obvious to industry practitioners, who may argue that (aside from timing and luck) location is the only thing that matters. However, in an age where capital flows across national… Read more

Features

The Synergetic Smart City Framework — From Idea to Reality

The underlying goal of this article is to highlight issues in current smart city approaches, find common success factors of established projects and to create a framework based on these findings, which should lay ground for future smart city concepts and research. There are 31,700,000 results on Google if one searches for the keyword pair… Read more

Features

How Smart Has Smart Growth Been?

Smart Growth refers to urban design and transportation planning agendas which its adherents believe create vibrant, high density urban centers with an ever decreasing dependency on the automobile. Smart Growth is promoted as a panacea for an increasingly wide range of urban and social challenges, with its agenda now permeating many of the planning departments in cities and regional districts throughout North America. Today many bureaucrats and... Read More