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Cashing in on So Cal Culture
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register Southern California has always been an invented place. Without a major river, a natural port or even remotely adequate water, the region has always thrived […]
Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes With Twitter’s high-profile IPO, the media and much of the pundit class are revisiting one of their favorite themes: the superiority of the brash, young urban tech […]
California’s New Feudalism Benefits a Few at the Expense of the Multitude
/in California, Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Much has been written and spoken about the deep divide between “red” and “blue” America, but the real chasm increasingly is between Washington and the […]
Democratic “Upstairs-Downstairs” Coalition at Risk
/in Demographics, Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register Michael Bloomberg’s passing from New York City Hall, and his likely replacement as mayor by a fire-breathing populist Democrat, Bill de Blasio, marks a historic […]
America’s Fastest-Growing Counties: The ‘Burbs Are Back
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes For nearly a half century, the death of suburbs and exurbs has been prophesied by pundits, urban real-estate interests and their media allies, and they ratcheted up […]
Thinking Outside the Rails on Transit
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register To many in the transit business – that is, people who seek to profit from the development and growth of buses, trains and streetcars – […]
Joel Talks to KABC Los Angeles About Metropolitan Growth
/in California, Urban AffairsIn: KABC Los Angeles Joel recently talked with Doug McIntyre of KABC Los Angeles about metropolitan growth trends. Click the Play button below to listen. (mp3 audio file)
The Next Urban Crisis, And How We Might Be Able To Avoid It
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Urban boosters are rightly proud of the progress American cities have made since their nadir in the 1970s; Harvard economist Ed Glaeser has gone so far as […]
City Leaders Are in Love With Density but Most City Dwellers Disagree
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast People care deeply about where they live. If you ever doubt that, remember this: they staged massive protests over a park in Istanbul. Gezi Park near Taksim […]
Joel Talks About How to Nurture the Middle Class on CBC Radio
/in In the News, Urban AffairsBy: CBC New Brunswick On: Information Morning Joel appeared on CBC radio to discuss the middle class in cities. From CBC: It can be hard to reconcile Saint John’s industrial […]