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► The Myth of Green Australia
6 May 2013. Australians hate the carbon tax, and claims that they are pioneering environmentalists are off the mark ... [more].....
► Ruining our cities to save them
Green city planning will fail ... [more]
The New City aims to stimulate debate about the disproportionate influence of inner-city thinking on urban planning and economic, social and environment policy. Editors: John Muscat, Jeremy Gilling............ ............[about us]
The New City is catalogued in the National Library's PANDORA archive and featured on New Geography, On Line Opinion, Quadrant Online, Demographia, Catallaxy, Forbes.com, the National Post and more...................[archive]
► The suburban economy and its enemies
Beware those seeking to strangle our booming suburbs ... [more]
► Green office towers cast shadow over Sydney
3 February 2013. Green office towers are a goldmine for the well-placed, a deadweight for others ... [more]
► The Myth of Green Australia
4 May 2013. Australians are not pioneering greens, by John Muscat in New Geography, featured on RealClearWorld, and republished in On Line Opinion.
► The use and misuse of Glaeser's Triumph of the City
Glaeser is the darling of green urbanists, but they miss the point ... [more]
► From California to Canberra, the real class war
6 June 2012. Increasingly green Australia is contracting California's disease ... [more]
► Green Office Towers
Our article on Sydney's green office towers was republished in On Line Opinion and NewGeography.
► Stay rational on climate change
Labels like climate 'sceptic' or 'denier' do not make for sound and rational decision-making ... [more]
► The use and misuse of Glaeser's Triumph of the City
12 March 2012. Glaeser is the darling of green urbanists, but they miss the point ... [more]
Dense urban thinking down under
Writing in Forbes .com, Joel Kotkin calls The New City feisty while slamming Australia's urban planning and housing policies ... [more]
► For home buyers, no dream in Disneyland
We take aim at the welfare lobby's dangerous thinking on housing affordability ... [more]
► Australians deserve freedom of expression
30 July 2011. The left is using sham pretexts to muzzle free expression and silence opponents ... [more]
► From California to Canberra, the Real Class War
Our article on the real class war was republished on On Line Opinion and New Geography.
► Dreams into nightmares: the housing affordability timebomb
Wendell Cox exposes flawed thinking on the housing affordability crisis ... [more]
► Inside Sydney's CBD (I): the retail core
18 May 2011. Sydney's CBD is resurgent but not returning to regional dominance ... [more]
► The use and misuse of Glaeser
Our item on Edward Glaeser was republished on On Line Opinion and New Geography and featured on RealClearPolicy.
► Workers flee Sydney's unaffordable housing
Flawed land supply policies are squeezing workers out of Sydney's housing market ... [more]
► Actually, cities are part of the economy
22 February 2011. Despite the government's plans, economics still rules our cities ... [more]
► How Gillard Governs
30 November 2011. John Muscat in Quadrant Online. Julia Gillard has downgraded the role of prime minister ... [more]
► Is environmental sustainability socially unsustainable?
Misuse of the term 'sustainability' is threatening living standards in our cities ... [more]
The Not-So-Lucky Country
Writing in Forbes.com, urbanist Joel Kotkin commends The New City while giving Kevin Rudd a serve ... [more]
Why our major cities are in decay
Writing in Quadrant Magazine, Michael Warby explains why Australian cities are failing their people ... [here] and [here]
► The Herald campaigns for Sydney as East Berlin
The Sydney Morning Herald's 'campaign for Sydney' was for no one but its narrow demographic of inner-city readers ... [more]
► A leg up: cities & upward mobility
22 February 2011. Joel Kotkin on how the world's largest cities are no longer homes of upward mobility ... [more]
► Carbon tax betrayal
20 September 2011. John Muscat in Quadrant Online. The Gillard minority government has forfeited its legitimacy ... [more]
► Jan Gehl's pedestrian ideas for Sydney
Jan Gehl's anti-vehicle plan threatens the Sydney CBD's commercial vitality .... [more]
► A price on carbon: the new greenmail
27 September 2010. Emissions aren't the issue: Australia is getting a carbon price by intimidation ... [more]
► Freedom's weak pulse
1 August 2011. Our editorial on freedom of expression featured on sites like Quadrant Online, Catallaxy Files and Menzies House.
► Don't sacrifice workers on altar of climate change
How magnanimous of our green elites to sacrifice workers for a symbolic gesture ... [more]
► For the working class
3 August 2010. An expose of the real anti-working-class agenda by Michael Thompson, the author of Labor Without Class ... [more]
► Australians are getting a carbon tax they don't want
4 July 2011. By John Muscat in New Geography ... [more] & RealClearWorld ... [more]
► Coal mining will outlast green hysterics
Closing down Australia's coal industry is futile when coal-fired electricity generation is undergoing explosive growth ... [more]
► Mr Rudd's unproductive ideas on urban productivity
18 March 2010. Kevin Rudd's compact city obsessions won't lift urban productivity ... [more]
► Inside Sydney's CBD: retail core
5 June 2011. John Muscat's article on the growth and transformation of Sydney CBD's retail core is republished in New Geography ... [more]
► Sydney: choking in its own density
12 March 2010. Wendell Cox explains how Sydney's air quality is deteriorating due to flawed urban consolidation and planning policies ... [more]
► The Global Climate Standoff
29 May 2011. By John Muscat in Quadrant Online. Claims that China is tackling climate change are exaggerated ... [more]
► Copenhagen: the fall of green statism
12 January 2010. Copenhagen deniers won't accept that the UN's climate change process has been derailed ... [more]
► Cities are part of the economy
19 March 2011. John Muscat's feature article on the Gillard Government's urban agenda is republished in New Geography ... [more]
► Toward the Great Australian Nightmare: a quarter floor in a high-rise block?
4 October 2009. Wendell Cox shows how home ownership is slipping away ... [more]
► Triumph of the functionaries
2 March 2011. By John Muscat in Quadrant Online. The functionary class is playing the Greens off against Labor for power ... [more]
► The crisis of academic urban planning
10 September 2009. A wide gulf has opened up betweem mainstream values and our urban planning academics ... [more]
► Can Labor hold city and bush?
30 November 2010. In The Australian, Christian Kerr quotes John Muscat on Labor's parlous relationship with the Greens under Julia Gillard ... [more]
► Bulldozing the 'burbs or bulldozing the truth?
25 June 2009. The green school of journalism plays hard and fast with the truth in its rush to declare the end of suburbia ... [more]
► A price on carbon: new greenmail
23 October 2010. Our editorial comment has been republished by the US based urbanist site New Geography ... [more]
► Suburbs and climate change: a homegrown brawl
30 March 2009. Rresearch shows that suburbia might not be as bad for the environment as greens claim ... [more]
► Carbon greenmail
27 September 2010. Our editorial comment on the sham arguments for a carbon price has featured on Australia's leading site of ideas and opinion Quadrant Online ... [more]
► Labor crosses Rubicon
7 September 2010. By John Muscat in Quadrant Online. The new Labor-Green alliance is dangerous for the ALP... [more]
► My party was trashed by the middle class
28 August 2010. By Michael Thompson in The Weekend Australian. A lightly edited version of his TNC essay ... [more]
► Australia 2010: Unstable politics in a prosperous country
29 August 2010. By John Muscat in New Geography. Australia's new regional politics ... [more]
► Division of Labor
9 August 2010. By John Muscat in Quadrant Online. A look at Labor's divided and dysfunctional election campaign leadership ... [more]
► The urbanist's guide to Kevin Rudd's downfall
28 June 2010. By John Muscat in New Geography. Rudd's downfall viewed from a housing urban development perspective ... [more]
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