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The Cost of NOT Housing: A New Report
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: National CORE This is the introduction to an new report “The Cost of NOT Housing” authored by Joel Kotkin for the National CORE Symposium on Affordability of Housing. […]
Battle of the Imperial Pretenders
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register It took the Roman Republic five centuries to devolve into a centralized despotism. It may take ours roughly 240 years to get to the same […]
How to Make Cities Livable Again
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast In his new book, The Human City, Joel Kotkin looks at the ways cities succeed or fail in terms of how their residents are best served. […]
Politics Move Left, Americans Move Right
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Real Clear Politics In an election year in which the top likely candidates come from New York, big cities arguably dominate American politics more than at any time […]
Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump? The Winner Is…the Oligarchy
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast The real winners in election 2016 are going to be the new-economy oligarchs who are among Clinton’s biggest donors. This presidential election may have been […]
Where Millionaires Are Moving
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes In this oligarchic era, dominated as never before in modern history by the ultra-rich, their movements are far more than grist for gossip columns. They are critical […]
Coastal California Getting Older, Not Bolder
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsFor the better part of a century, Southern California has been seen as the land of surfers, hipsters and youthful innovators. Yet the land of sun and sea is becoming, like its East Coast counterpart Florida, increasingly geriatric…
America’s Software And Tech Hotspots
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Where is America’s tech and software industry thriving? In a new study conducted for the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp., researchers took an interesting stab at that question, assessing […]
Aristocracy of Talent: Social Mobility Is the Silver Lining to America’s Inequality Crisis
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast Yes, wealth concentration is insane. But the ways in which wealth is shifting are surprising—and give reason for a little optimism. In an age of […]
Singapore’s Midlife Crisis
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: The City Journal Lee Kwan Yew, one of the great political architects of our time, died a year ago, but the regime he established in Singapore remains entrenched […]