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/in California, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com The High Desert region north and east of Los Angeles sits 3,000 feet above sea level. A rough, often starkly beautiful region of scrubby trees, wide vistas […]
Smart Growth Must Not Ignore Drivers
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Politico For the time being, battles over health care and energy seem likely to occupy the attention of both the Obama administration and its critics. Yet although now […]
The Kid Issue
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes Japan’s recent election, which overthrew the decades-long hegemony of the Liberal Democratic Party, was remarkable in its own right. But perhaps its most intriguing aspect was not […]
World Capitals Of The Future
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes For most of those which were great once are small today; And those that used to be small were great in my own time. Knowing, therefore, that […]
Rome Vs. Gotham
/in Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Urban politicians have widely embraced the current concentration of power in Washington, but they may soon regret the trend they now so actively champion. The great protean […]
The New Radicals
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes America’s “kumbaya” moment has come and gone. The nation’s brief feel-good era initiated by Barack Obama’s stirring post-partisan rhetoric–and fortified by John McCain’s classy concession speech–has dissolved […]
California Disease: Oregon at Risk of Economic Malady
/in Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Oregonian California has been exporting people to Oregon for many years, even amid the recession in both states. Indeed, the 2005 American Community Survey report shows that […]
Why The ‘Livable Cities’ Rankings Are Wrong
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Few topics stir more controversy between urbanists and civic boosters than city rankings. What truly makes a city “great,” or even “livable”? The answers, and how these […]
Green Jobs Can’t Save The Economy
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes Nothing is perhaps more pathetic than the exertions of economic developers and politicians grasping at straws, particularly during hard times. Over the past decade, we have turned […]
Forget Second Stimulus; We Need Economic Vision
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Politico As the American economy slowly heals, the Obama administration will no doubt claim some credit for its $787 billion stimulus — and perhaps even suggest doubling down […]