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America’s Emerging Housing Crisis
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The current housing recovery may be like manna to homeowners, but it may do little to ease a growing shortage of affordable residences, and could even make […]
Singapore Needs A New Sling
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over the past half century, the tiny city-state of Singapore has developed arguably the most successful formula for growth and social uplift on the planet. Like the […]
Suburbia’s Sacred Spaces
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register From the earliest times, cities have revolved around three basic concepts – security, the marketplace and what I call "the sacred space." In contemporary America, […]
America’s Fastest-Growing Cities Since The Recession
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast It was widely reported that the Great Recession and subsequent economic malaise changed the geography of America. Suburbs, particularly in the Sun Belt, were becoming […]
As the North Rests on Its Laurels, the South Is Rising Fast
/in Demographics, Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast One hundred and fifty years after twin defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg destroyed the South’s quest for independence, the region is again on the rise. […]
Housing Boom Is The Best Chance For A Recovery For The Rest Of Us
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Our tepid economic recovery has been profoundly undemocratic in nature. Between the “too big to fail” banks and Ben Bernanke’s policy of dropping free money from helicopters […]
The Cities That Are Stealing Finance Jobs From Wall Street
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over the past 60 years, financial services’ share of the economy has exploded from 2.5% to 8.5% of GDP. Even if you believe, as we do, that […]
Southern California Economy Not Keeping Up
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register One of Orange County’s top executives asked me over lunch recently why Southern California has not seen anything like the kind of tech boom now […]
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based […]
America’s New Manufacturing Boomtowns
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Conventional wisdom for a generation has been that manufacturing in America is dying. Yet over the past five years, the country has experienced something of an industrial […]