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Asia’s New Landless Peasants?
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Landless people have long sparked instability in Asia. From the days of the Qin dynasty (3rd century B.C.), through the huge Taiping rebellion in the mid-19th century, […]
Is The Information Industry Reviving Economies?
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com For nearly a generation, the information sector, which comprises everything from media and data processing to internet-related businesses, has been ballyhooed as a key driver for both […]
Manufacturing Stages A Comeback
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com This year’s survey of the best cities for jobs contains one particularly promising piece of news: the revival of the country’s long distressed industrial sector and those […]
The Dispersionist Manifesto
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Wharton Real Estate Review We live in an era of the heady drumbeat of urban triumphalism. In a world that is now, by some measures, predominately urban, observers […]
The Best Cities for Jobs
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com These may be far from the best of times, but they are no longer the worst. Last year’s annual “Best Cities for Jobs” list was by far […]
The Census’ Fastest-Growing Cities Of The Decade
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over the past decade urbanists, journalists and politicians have hotly debated where Americans were settling and what places were growing the fastest. With the final results in […]
Cities and the Census: Cities Neither Booming Nor Withering
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: City Journal For many mayors across the country, including New York City’s Michael Bloomberg, the recently announced results of the 2010 census were a downer. In a host […]
The Problem With Megacities
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com The triumphalism surrounding the slums and megacities frankly disturbs me. It is, of course, right to celebrate the amazing resilience of residents living in these cities’ massive […]
Hanoi’s Underground Capitalism
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Along the pitted elegance of Pho Ngo Quyen, a bustling street in Hanoi, Vietnam, you will, predictably, find uniformed men in Soviet-style uniforms, banners with Communist Party […]
Energy Policy Reset: Forget Nuclear Reactors and Mideast Oil
/in Politics, Rural Policy, The EconomyAppearing in: Politico.com The two largest crises today — the Japanese nuclear disaster and the widening unrest in the Middle East — prove it’s time to de-fetishize energy policy. These […]