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Biggest Boomer Towns
/in DemographicsAppearing in: Forbes.com The boomer generation, spawned (literally) in the aftermath of the Second World War, will continue to shape the American landscape well into the 21st Century. They may […]
Lost Angeles
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The City Journal It seems appropriate that the city where America’s movies are made has enjoyed such a dramatic trajectory. Los Angeles began the twentieth century with barely […]
How Los Angeles Lost Its Mojo
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Wall Street Journal Los Angeles today is a city in secular decline. Its current political leadership seems determined to turn the sprawling capitalist dynamo into a faux New […]
California Wages War On Single-Family Homes
/in California, Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes In recent years, homeowners have been made to feel a bit like villains rather than the victims of hard times, Wall Street shenanigans and inept regulators. Instead […]
India Conquers the World
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Newsweek From the exclusive Club Lounge on the 19th floor of Singapore’s Mandarin Oriental, Anish Lalvani gazes out at the city’s skyline, a dazzling array of glass and […]
Why America’s Young And Restless Will Abandon Cities For Suburbs
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com For well over a decade urban boosters have heralded the shift among young Americans from suburban living and toward dense cities. As one Wall Street Journal report […]
America’s Burgeoning Class War Could Spell Opportunity For GOP
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com Last week’s disappointing job reports, with unemployment rising above 9%, only reinforced an emerging reality that few politicians, in either party, are ready to address. American society […]
The Next Boom Towns In The U.S.
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com What cities are best positioned to grow and prosper in the coming decade? To determine the next boom towns in the U.S., with the help of Mark […]
The Rise Of The Third Coast: The Gulf Region’s Ascendancy In U.S.
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com For most of the nation’s history, the Atlantic region — primarily New York City — has dominated the nation’s trade. In the last few decades of the […]
Hey, Dad: Family Still Matters!
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com America is getting older. Those over the age of 65, which currently account for 12% of the population, are expected to make up 20% of the population […]