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Around The World, The Tide Is Turning Against Megacities
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes The massive construction waste collapse last month in Shenzhen reflects a wider phenomenon: the waning of the megacity era. Shenzhen became a megacity (population over 10 million) faster […]
America’s Next Boom Towns: Regions to Watch in 2016
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Which cities have the best chance to prosper in the coming decade? The question is a complex one, and as the economy changes, so, too, will the […]
Is Los Angeles a City of Losers?
/in California, In the News, Urban AffairsBy: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: McIntyre In The Morning Joel recently appeared on KABC radio to talk about the current situation in Los Angeles and its prospects for the […]
The End of Localism
/in Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast This could be how our experiment with grassroots democracy finally ends. World leaders—the super-rich, their pet nonprofits, their media boosters, and their allies in the […]
The Cities Doing The Most To Address The U.S. Housing Shortage
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes America is suffering from the severest undersupply of housing since the end of the Second World War. Although population growth has slowed significantly since the 1950s and […]
Our Anemic Suburbs: Every Urban Area Needs its Outskirts — and New York City’s Are in Trouble
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: New York Daily News New York City has prospered since the great recession of 2008, buoyed by an endless supply of free money from Washington that’s elevated the […]
Can GOP Fatten Up Around the Middle?
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Orange County Register At a recent breakfast in Washington, D.C., a rising young Republican senator explained the divisions in his party in a particularly succinct manner: a […]
Paris and the Politics of Climate
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register To some, particularly in the green movement, this month’s Paris climate change summit represents something like the great synods of the early Christian era, where […]
Fostering a Climate of Intolerance
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register The Paris Climate Conference, convening this week, takes place in the very place where, arguably, the most dangerous exemplar of hysteria, the Islamic jihadi movement, […]
Jerry Brown’s Insufferable Green Piety
/in California, PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast At the site of real and immediate tragedy, an old man comes, wielding not a sword to protect civilization from ghastly present threats but to […]