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Autonomous Cars Are Our Real FutureOctober 9, 2018 - 7:49 am
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Landless Americans Are the New Serf Class
/in Demographics, Urban Affairs /by Joel Kotkin and Wendell CoxFor the better part of the past century, the American dream was defined, in large part, by that “universal aspiration” to own a home. As housing prices continue to outstrip household income, that’s changing as more and more younger Americans are ending up landless, and not by choice.
Is This the End for the Neoliberal World Order?
/in Politics, The Economy /by Joel KotkinWhatever his grievous shortcomings, President Trump has succeeded in one thing: smashing the once imposing edifice of neoliberalism. His presidency rejects the neoliberal globalist perspective on trade, immigration and foreign relations, including a penchant for military intervention, that has dominated both parties’ political establishments for well over two decades.
Southern California Needs A Better Marketing Strategy
/in California /by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplanskyby Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — Largely invented, a semi-desert far from the metropolitan heartland of the nation, Southern California has relied on a combination of engineering genius and marketing bravado. The constructed infrastructure has become creaky, but still functions.
California’s Housing Crisis and the Density Delusion
/in California /by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Coxby Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox — Once seen as a human-scale alternative to high density cities of the past, California’s cities are targeted by policy makers and planners who claim ever greater densification will help relieve the state’s severe housing crisis.
Where Small Town America Is Thriving
/in The Economy /by Joel Kotkin and Mark Schillby Joel Kotkin and Mark Schill — Big city America has long demonstrated a distaste for its smaller cousins. While many of these smaller communities are in demographic decline as the ambitious young go elsewhere, smaller communities are far more diverse — and have far greater potential — than is commonly believed.
Left and Lefter in California
/in California, Politics /by Joel Kotkinby Joel Kotkin — The California Democratic Party’s refusal to endorse the reelection of Senator Dianne Feinstein represents a breaking point both for the state’s progressives and, arguably, the future of the party nationwide.
How Silicon Valley Went From ‘Don’t Be Evil’ to Doing Evil
/in The Economy /by Joel KotkinOnce seen as the saviors of America’s economy, Silicon Valley is turning into something more of an emerging axis of evil. “Brain-hacking” tech companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon, as one prominent tech investor puts it, have become so intrusive as to alarm critics on both right and left.
The New Opportunity Boomtowns
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban Affairs /by Joel KotkinA century ago Detroit was a boomtown and Los Angeles a sleepy refuge for sun-seeking Midwesterners. A half-century later, L.A. was the fastest-growing big city in the high-income world, while Detroit was beginning its long tailspin. In the ’70s, New York was the “rotten apple” and seemed destined for further decline…
Autonomous Cars Are About to Transform the Suburbs
/in Demographics, Urban Affairs /by Joel Kotkin and Alan BergerSuburbs have largely been dismissed by environmentalists and urban planners as bad for the planet, a form that needed to be eliminated to make way for a bright urban future. Perhaps a better approach would be to address its most glaring environmental weakness: dependence on gas-powered automobiles.
From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future
/in California, Politics, Urban Affairs /by Joel KotkinThe tech oligarchs who already dominate our culture and commerce, manipulate our moods, and shape the behaviors of our children while accumulating capital at a rate unprecedented in at least a century want to fashion our urban future in a way that dramatically extends the reach of the surveillance state already evident in airports and on our phones.