Finance

Toronto, as in Portland?

Flooding the job market with graduates without helping steer them to opportunities is no recipe for success. In and of itself, retaining talent fixes nothing. The Talent Dividend is a boondoggle.[read more]

1 of Cincinnati's 399 staircases

Changing uses (or misuses) for public staircases were the result of shifting attitudes by urban planners and architects who were themselves willing participants aboard the rise of auto-oriented development.[read more]

Blanscape / Shutterstock.com

Vietnam is benefiting from native born talent regardless of residential location. Whether or not return migrants stay is irrelevant. Talent migration is not a zero-sum game.[read more]

property values

Property liability insurance companies say they have been hurting: their profit margins have been at best, razor-thin, for years. And it has been worse since the economic downturn and the apparent increase in natural disasters.[read more]

highway construction/shutterstock

Obama’s plan, which would need congressional approval, also proposes attracting private investment by pairing federal, state, and local governments with private capital, in what’s being called the “Rebuild America Partnership”.[read more]

crowd-sourced mortgages

The Crowd House Mortgage idea couldn’t be more removed from the model of today. The capital lent is sourced from people who know the borrowers, the lending decision not made by computer but by those lenders.[read more]

new economy movement

This February the EPA released a new report that integrates environmental justice, equitable development, and smart growth. The goal, as the title signifies, is to foster “Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities.”[read more]

green leasing

A new Green Star office complex will be one of the first in South Africa where a landlord has incorporated green concepts into its office leases.[read more]

residential solar energy

Until recently, few businesses or homeowners were able to enjoy the convenience of financing when it came to solar energy. Their only option was a large initial outlay of capital.[read more]

Rose Kennedy Greenway

The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway – a 1.5-mile-long series of parks and public spaces – is an amazing park space born out of one of the most controversial infrastructure projects the city has ever seen.[read more]

Just seven months ago we were outlining the inevitability of crowd-invested placemaking. Since then, Fundrise has already crowd-invested in four development projects.[read more]

Many have offered VMT fees as a long-term, sustainable source of transportation revenue, including a national commission on transportation finance. The federal and state governments have largely relied on gas taxes to pay for transportation spending, but these revenue sources have increasingly fallen short of investment needs.[read more]