Tag: suburbs

On Trump’s Suburban Fear Mongering

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 18, 2020

Trump trying to revive the campaign of George Wallace has always seemed bizarre to me and no part more so than the fear mongering about suburbs. The suburbs have become significantly more diverse in recent years and it’s simply not 1968 anymore. Not that Trump realizes that. But how are suburban women responding to this […]

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Houston

By Erik Loomis

On May 12, 2016

This is a really interesting article on Houston. Probably the most car-centric city and certainly the most anti-zoning, given that it doesn’t have any, city in the nation, Houston is an urban pl

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Is Suburban Sprawl Inherently Family Friendly?

By Erik Loomis

On May 10, 2016

No. That’s the point Jeff Turrentine makes in critiquing the new Joel Kotkin book. Suburban sprawl is about a serious of structural choices made by American policymakers that have failed the cit

The Corporate Suburban Campus

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 13, 2016

This is a good piece dissecting the continued dominance of the suburban corporate campus in an age of climate change and higher desire for dense living. What makes this more interesting is that so many of the Silicon Valley companies who are building these huge campuses that require automotive transportation are claiming to change the […]

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Sprawl: Terrible in All Ways

By Erik Loomis

On April 1, 2015

Suburban sprawl is a horrible thing for so many reasons. The environmental impact is enormous, eating up green space, farm land, and habitat. It reinforces racial and class exclusion and de facto segr

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Reject This Script. Too on the Nose

By Erik Loomis

On October 19, 2014

Bill O’Reilly is actually from the original Levittown? What is this, a bad episode of West Wing?

In the Suburbs

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 12, 2012

Pick up a copy of Redbook. It’s the only magazine dedicated to young adults. This is what I believe is known as a rich text.

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