Sydney, Australia
► How Gillard governs
.....30 November 2011 ... John Muscat in Quadrant Online.
► Australians deserve freedom of expression ... [more]
► Ruining our cities to save them
Green city planning will make our urban problems worse, not better ... [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]
► Australians deserve freedom of expression
30 July 2011. The left is using sham pretexts to muzzle free expression ... [more]
► Carbon tax betrayal
20 September 2011. John Muscat in Quadrant Online. The Gillard minority government has forfeited its legitimacy ... [more]
► The suburban economy and its enemies
Beware those seeking to strangle our once and future booming suburbs ... [more]
► Stay rational on climate change
Labels like climate 'sceptic' or 'denier' do not make for sound and rational decision-making ... [more]
► Inside Sydney's CBD (I): the retail core
18 May 2011. Sydney's CBD is resurgent but not returning to regional dominance ... [more]
► Freedom's weak pulse
1 August 2011. Our editorial comment on freedom of expression featured on Quadrant Online, Catallaxy Files and Menzies House.
► For home buyers, no dream in Disneyland
We take aim at the welfare lobby's dangerous thinking on housing affordability ... [more]
The Dispersionist Manifesto
Joel Kotkin calls for a new urban vision appealing to the lower middle and working class majority ... [more]
► Australians are getting a carbon tax they don't want
4 July 2011. By John Muscat in New Geography ... [more] & RealClearWorld ... [more]
► Dreams into nightmares: the housing affordability timebomb
Wendell Cox exposes some flawed thinking about the housing affordability crisis ... [more]
► Actually, cities are part of the economy
22 February 2011. Despite the government's plans, economics still rules our cities ... [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]
► Workers flee Sydney's unaffordable housing
Flawed land supply policies are squeezing workers out of Sydney's housing market ... [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]
► Inside Sydney's CBD: retail core
5 June 2011. John Muscat's article on Sydney CBD's retail core is republished in New Geography ... [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]
► The Global Climate Standoff
29 May 2011. By John Muscat in Quadrant Online. Claims that China is tackling climate change are exaggerated ... [more]
► 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 price on carbon: the new greenmail
27 September 2010. Emissions aren't the issue: Australia is getting a carbon price by intimidation ... [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]
► Jan Gehl's pedestrian ideas for Sydney
Commissioned by Sydney's Mayor Clover Moore, Jan Gehl's anti-vehicle plan threatens the CBD's commercial vitality .... [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]
► 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]
► Don't sacrifice workers on altar of climate change
How magnanimous of our green elites to sacrifice workers for a symbolic gesture ... [more]
► Mr Rudd's unproductive ideas on urban productivity
18 March 2010. Kevin Rudd's compact city obsessions won't lift urban productivity ... [more]
► Us, bizarre?
19 December 2010. The far-left blog Larvatus Prodeo calls The New City "bizarre" for cheerleading on urban development ... [more]
► Coal mining will outlast green hysterics
Closing down Australia's coal industry is futile in a world where coal-fired electricity generation is undergoing explosive growth ... [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]
► 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 ... [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]
► A price on carbon: new greenmail
23 October 2010. Our editorial comment has been republished by the US based urbanist site 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 from essential workers ... [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]
► The crisis of academic urban planning
10 September 2009. A wide gulf has opened up betweem mainstream values and our urban planning academics ... [more]
► Labor crosses Rubicon
7 September 2010. By John Muscat in Quadrant Online. The new Labor-Green alliance is dangerous for the ALP... [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]
► 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]
► Suburbs and climate change: a homegrown brawl
30 March 2009. A war has erupted over research that shows suburbia might not be as bad for the environment as greens claim ... [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]
► Urban plight: vanishing upward mobility
31 August 2010. By Joel Kotkin in The American. Cities are offering declining opportunites for social advancement ... [more]
► Move to the suburbs (and beyond) continues
13 July 2010. By Wendell Cox in New Geography. Presenting the true facts, Wendell dispels persistent reports of suburban decline ... [more]
► The Broken Ladder: threats to upward mobility in the global city
16 May 2010. By Joel Kotkin in New Geography. Insights into obstacles to social advancement in three dynamic cities from a fresh perspective ... [more]
► Why is urban sprawl bad?
25 May 2010. By Ross Eliott in On Line Opinion. Ross demolishes the constantly repeated arguments against sprawl ... [more]