• Noted Speaker and Author Joel Kotkin

    THE COMING OF NEO-FEUDALISM
    A Warning to the Global Middle Class

    Joel Kotkin’s new book explores how societies around the world are reverting to a neo-feudal model.

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    THE HUMAN CITY: URBANISM
    FOR THE REST OF US

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LATEST ARTICLES

Mayors Won't Rule the World

Earlier in this decade, cities—the bigger and denser the better—appeared as the planet’s geographic stars. According to the 2013 book If Mayors Ruled the World, everyone would be better off if state rule were replaced by rule from the most evolved urban areas.
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Giving Thanks Matters

Thanksgiving may be approaching, but its chief value, that of gratitude, seems oddly out of fashion.
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Stomping on the Suburbs

For generations, Australia has enjoyed among the highest living standards in the world. The “Australian dream”, embodied largely by owning a single-family home with a small backyard, included well over 70 per cent of households.
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California Becoming More Feudal

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky explore how California’s leaders can improve things for the next generation in California Becoming More Feudal, With Ultra-Rich Lording Over Declining Middle Class, a research brief from Chapman University’s Center for Demographics and Policy.
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