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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 […]
Why North Dakota Is Booming
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Wall Street Journal Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated […]
California’s Demographic Dilemma: A Class And Culture Clash
/in California, DemographicsAppearing in: Forbes.com The newly released Census reports reveal that California faces a profound gap between the cities where people are moving to and the cities that hold all the […]
The Protean Future Of American Cities
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com The ongoing Census reveals the continuing evolution of America’s cities from small urban cores to dispersed, multi-polar regions that includes the city’s surrounding areas and suburbs. This […]
What The Census Tells Us About America’s Future
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com With the release of results for over 20 states, the 2010 Census has provided some strong indicators as to the real evolution of the country’s demography. In […]
Obama’s High-Speed Rail Obsession
/in Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Perhaps nothing so illustrates President Obama’s occasional disconnect with reality than his fervent advocacy of high-speed rail. Amid mounting pressure for budget cuts that affect existing programs, […]
A Leg Up: World’s Largest Cities No Longer Homes of Upward Mobility
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Metropolis Magazine Throughout much of history, cities have served as incubators for upward mobility. A great city, wrote René Descartes in the 17th century, was “an inventory of […]
The U.S.’ Biggest Brain Magnets
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com For a decade now U.S. city planners have obsessively pursued college graduates, adopting policies to make their cities more like dense hot spots such as New York, […]
The Midwest: Coming Back?
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Oh my name it is nothing My age it is less The country I come from Is called the Midwest –Bob Dylan, “With God on Our Side,” […]