Hidden Unities

Hundreds of communities across America have paid out major bribes to Wal-Mart and similar big box retailers in a misguided pursuit of sales tax base and low-paying jobs. Most negative externaliti...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/bitter-legacies-big-box-bribes-meet-the-new-normal/

While critical of her argument(s), there is compelling material in Leigh Gallagher’s book worth discussing. I wanted to unpack this core summation of hers: “The new homes and communities bein...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/end-of-the-suburbs-book-discussion-pt-1/

Leigh Gallagher’s book, The End of the Suburbs, desperately needs a more serious title. At least it could be recast as ‘the end of the suburbs as we know them’, a prediction on stronger fo...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/the-end-of-the-suburbs-book-review/

This series, Forward the Future, will intermittently consider the future of commercial activity within U.S. municipalities. Our food choices are expanding, not only with the accelerating globaliz...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/gas-stations-food-trucks-and-diy-districts-ftf-ii/

Crony capitalism receives more prominent attention via the Atlantic’s October issue. Gregg Easterbrook takes aim at one of the grandest corporate thieves, the tax-free NFL and its legions of pu...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/spare-parts/

The first in a continuing series of posts on America’s governments going broke or something close to it…. “Here’s a feature of Obamacare you probably don’t know about: A transfer of hun...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/disassembled-watch-i/

The first of an ongoing series about the ‘future foundation’ of our land-use patterns… The spread of charter and magnet schools, online education and personalized albeit remote tutoring cap...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/the-good-schools-property-value-bubble/

This series will intermittently consider the future of commercial activity within U.S. municipalities. First…. fast food. (Wikimedia Commons) Recent news coverage of the McDonald’s low-pay bu...

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/forward-the-future-i/

Living in a neighborhood with sidewalks, my friends and I walked or biked everywhere; even into another state (NY state was 25 minutes away on foot)

https://hiddenunities.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/lost-connection/