(Drawing) Rings Around The World

The NBER publish some good economics! Here are a couple of new working papers I liked the sound of : Pounds that Kill: The External Costs o...

Ben Rogers, writing in the Standard , gets to the heart of dilemmas around aspirations towards 'mixed communities' in the face of ec...

Rowan Moore reads the new enormobook ' Living in the Endless City ' and fishes out a good quote: Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, articula...

The Economist has a nifty interactive resource showing trends in house prices and associated indicators for a bunch of countries. It includ...

Dave Hill has an interesting post about the potential impact of the Olympics on the prospects for regeneration in Newham. Here he quotes Si...

Richard Florida observes the extraordinary price premium attached to apartments in central Manhattan, and argues that such a location is a...

I'm fully on board with Andrew Rawnsley's call for more housing supply, but I question some of the assumptions he's making. F...

Just to add to my last post , I find it frustrating that the expense and insecurity experienced by tenants in the private rented sector is o...

The IPPR have published a report on housing bubbles and how to stop them, which along with a Halifax report on 'Generation Rent' h...

The BBC wants to know why Americans are so angry about petrol prices . Here's ' crossrider ' of the Cycalogical blog: The USA h...