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Rust Belt Chic And The Keys To Reviving The Great Lakes
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over four decades, the Great Lakes states have been the sad sack of American geography. This perception has been reinforced by Detroit’s bankruptcy filing and the descent […]
America Hanging in There Better Than Rivals
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register To paraphrase the great polemicist Thomas Paine, these are times that try the souls of optimists. The country is shuffling through a very weak recovery, […]
California Homes Require Real Reach
/in California, Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register In the 1950s and 1960s, Southern California was ground zero for the “American Dream” of owning a house. From tony Newport Beach and Bel-Air to […]
Entrepreneurs Turn Oligarchs
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register For a generation, most Americans, whatever their politics, have largely admired Silicon Valley as an exemplar of enlightened free-market capitalism. Yet, increasingly, the one-time folk […]
How Can We Be So Dense? Anti-Sprawl Policies Threaten America’s Future
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Among university professors, government planners and mainstream pundits there is little doubt that the best city is the densest one. This notion is also supported by a […]
California’s Blue-on-Blue Battle
/in California, PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register Perhaps nothing more illustrates the evolving inner class conflict within the progressive political movement than the recent embrace of California as a role model for […]
America’s Engineering Hubs: The Cities With The Greatest Capacity For Innovation
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com America has always been a nation of tinkerers. Our Founding Fathers, notes author Alec Foege, were innovators in areas ranging from agriculture (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson) and […]
America’s Emerging Housing Crisis
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The current housing recovery may be like manna to homeowners, but it may do little to ease a growing shortage of affordable residences, and could even make […]
Singapore Needs A New Sling
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over the past half century, the tiny city-state of Singapore has developed arguably the most successful formula for growth and social uplift on the planet. Like the […]
Suburbia’s Sacred Spaces
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register From the earliest times, cities have revolved around three basic concepts – security, the marketplace and what I call "the sacred space." In contemporary America, […]