CityKin

“We built the wrong product in the wrong location, and nobody wants it any more, that’s the reason for the housing crisis, and therefore th...

We need smart infrastructure, not just wider roads: ...we want our infrastructure maintained. In fact, it's the common denominator of a...

Last Wednesday, Mayor Bing announced a list of residential buildings to be demolished :  

This aerial photo shows a partially demolished Detroit neighborhood with an intact neighborhood just across a moat in Grosse Point. No comm...

Wow, interactive map of 48 prominent vacant buildings in downtown Detroit.  

A story about the Robinwood neighborhood in Detroit and how quickly it turned : “in the blink of an eye”. “Robinwood was an integrated and ...

An AP story about the continuing decline of the Rust Belt makes significant mentions of OTR and Cincinnati. What is interesting is that th...

And Crumb asks "what next?.." Well we have had 30 years of development since this was drawn, and I think the 13th panel of the ab...

...As a country we have been spending too much on the present and not enough on the future. We have been consuming rather than investing. We...

In the New York Times , yesterday. ...There are roughly 1,500 malls in the United States, according to the International Council of Shopping...

  ...Shopping malls are losing anchor stores, and large chains are closing stores and even going out of business altogether. Developers who ...

I haven't written about Bush's torture and detention policy, because that is not what this blog is about. However, it is a slow new...

For the past 2 years or longer this guy has been saying the same thing and being laughed at. Unfortunately he was right. We have had too mu...

The Cincinnati Business Courier reports today, that Coldstream Financial has closed . Here is an excerpt of the article: ...The firm grew qu...

Better than others I have linked to, because it is measured against Gross National Product: ...On the day President Bush took office, the na...

Some quotes relevant to the current crisis: The White House just asked the national debt ceiling be raised another $700 billion, for the pro...

...with his infamous charts , demonstrating the fiscal straights this country is in:   Notice how the debt was actually going down there dur...