Publications

2023

Transform Malls Into Mixed-Use Developments

2022

ED Now: Pump up Housing and Domestic Energy Production to Meet Demand

Economic Impact Analysis For Airports: a Primer on Measuring the Economic Contributions of Airports

2021

Economic and Real Estate Outlook for 2022

2020

The Need for a New Marshall Plan to Sustain Local Retail

Economic and Real Estate Outlook for 2020

2019

The Shortfall in the Production of Housing and its Effects

Historic and Contemporary Responses to Housing Shortages: The Impact of Rent Control Using San Francisco as a Case Study

2018

Economic and Real Estate Outlook for 2019

Reinventing Malls for What You Can’t Get Online

A new vague and contrived test for defining relevant property subject to regulatory takings claims

2017

Common Traits of Successful Places

The Perils of a Policy Shift to 19th Century High-Tariff Protectionism and Mercantilism

2016

Claude Gruen’s Review of William A. Fischel’s book Zoning Rules!

The future of Bay Area housing markets and income inequality

Getting Inclusionary Zoning Right

The Imperative to Anticipate and Respond to Tech-Driven Disruptions

2015

What Local Governments Should Expect for Real Estate Investment and Development in 2015

2014

The Objectives of Market Research

Learning from Berlin

2013

Implications of Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management

That Echo You Hear? It’s Baby Boomers’ Kids Rattling Retail and Real Estate Markets

Avoiding Pitfalls of Public-Private Partnerships

2012

Six Predictions for the New Year

The Tomorrow Plan Exchange: Workforce Housing Demand that the Recent State of Iowa Employment Forecast Would Stimulate

2011

Boomers, Echo’s and X’s: Generational and Other Structural Shifts and Their Impacts on Future Demand for Real Estate in the Coming Decade

In-store Retailing: A Tsunami of Change

2010

Replanning Small City Downtowns

2009

The State of the Economy: How We Got Here

America Needs the ‘6 Percent Solution’

2008

Landwrite: Demographics and Retail

Can We Talk Ourselves into a Serious Recession?

2007

Tighter Government Controls Could Harm the Majority of Households that Benefit from a Competitive Subprime Mortgage Market

Urban Land: Consumer Preferences

2006

Urban Land: The Next Market

The Institutional Real Estate Letter: A Conversation with Claude Gruen

2005

Illinois State Bar Association, Local Government Law: The Changing and Meaning and Purposes of the Public Use Limitation on Eminent Domain

2004

Urban Land: Demographics Affect Demand

Urban Land: Room for Discretion

2002

Urban Land: The Year 2020, How Can We Best Benefit from the Forces of the New Economy, Globalization, and Immigration?

2001

Urban Land: Urban Divide, Gateway and Domestic Magnet Metropolitan Regions Can be Expected to Exhibit Significant Differences in Residents Age, Education and Socioeconomic Status

The Urban Lawyer: Takings, Just Compensation, and the Efficient Use of Land, Urban, and Environmental Resources

Latest Supreme Court Regulatory Takings Case Protects Expectations

You May Not Realize It but We are Living in a Revolutionary Time

2000

The New Demographic Paradigm: The Effect on Regional Growth and Development Patterns

Demographic Change and the Effect on Housing Markets and Regional Development

Finding the Right Mix of Parking

1999

What Makes a Successful Downtown

1998

Turning Silver into Gold

Urban Land: Transit Stations Influence Residential Property Values

Urban Land: The Gospel of Entertainment

1997

The Effect of CTA and METRA Stations on Residential Property Values

1996

California Demographic Trends: Past, Present, and Future

Real Estate is Not a Commodity

Real Estate Grows Against the Backdrop of a Changing Culture

1994

The New Redevelopment: Substituting Public/Private Partnerships for Acquisition Dollars

The Technological Revolution in Retailing – From Mall to Cyberspace

Housing in Suburban Employment Centers

What You Should Know and What You Can Do About the Revolutionary Changes in Retailing

1993

America is Changing: Will Retailers and Real Estate Owners Get out in Front?

Four Critical Shifts and Their Implications for Commercial Real Estate

The Reinvention of Retailing

1992

Affordable Housing and the California Economy

1991

The Economics of Disamenities: What To Do When Nobody Wants LULU

Regional Government Won’t Do It

Pre-1990

Forecasting Labor’s Role in the Workspace Market

Sociological and Cultural Variables in Housing Theory