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/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register For a generation, most Americans, whatever their politics, have largely admired Silicon Valley as an exemplar of enlightened free-market capitalism. Yet, increasingly, the one-time folk […]
How Can We Be So Dense? Anti-Sprawl Policies Threaten America’s Future
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Among university professors, government planners and mainstream pundits there is little doubt that the best city is the densest one. This notion is also supported by a […]
California’s Blue-on-Blue Battle
/in California, PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register Perhaps nothing more illustrates the evolving inner class conflict within the progressive political movement than the recent embrace of California as a role model for […]
America’s Engineering Hubs: The Cities With The Greatest Capacity For Innovation
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com America has always been a nation of tinkerers. Our Founding Fathers, notes author Alec Foege, were innovators in areas ranging from agriculture (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson) and […]
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 […]