FEW things so firmly establish one’s grasp on the commonplace as to list the changes that have occurred in economic life in the last half century. Machines have, of course, extensively replaced crude ...

With unfettered access to the global industrial base, the United States can respond effectively to virtually any challenge worldwide, but if the world were a different place, a U.S. response might be ...

This week various agencies announced that they are getting started on the NYC Industrial Plan, as required by a City Council bill approved last year. That measure requires the Department of City ...

A sitting U.S. president called it the "eighth wonder of the world." It was a massive factory, to be sited in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, that would make high-end LCD panels. The price tag would come ...

This past summer, several citizens wrote to The Philadelphia Inquirer saying that Philadelphia 2035, the city’s new Comprehensive Plan, places too much emphasis on what it labeled “gentrification,” ...

The Ukraine war has many lessons for NATO, but one of the key lessons is the need to rethink the linkage between its force planning and its defense industrial base. Some of these lessons reinforce the ...

The plan has become a political flashpoint in the Trump administration’s trade war with China: last fall, Vice President Mike Pence invoked the country’s ire when he lambasted Made in China 2025 — its ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Community Board 3 listened to representatives from the New York City Department of City Planning Wednesday night as they gave an update on the city’s Industrial Plan. The NYC ...

As the editor of this symposium is himself forced to admit in the concluding chapter, a better title would have been ‘Lack of Industrial Planning under the Codes.’ His contributors, variously chosen ...

On September 16, 2025, the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP), together with the city’s Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and the New York City Economic Development Corporation ...

The city of Detroit has, by far, the most new industrial construction underway out of anywhere else in the region. Some 2.75 million square feet is in the ground, according to a fourth-quarter report ...