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America’s Fastest-Growing Cities Since The Recession
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast It was widely reported that the Great Recession and subsequent economic malaise changed the geography of America. Suburbs, particularly in the Sun Belt, were becoming […]
As the North Rests on Its Laurels, the South Is Rising Fast
/in Demographics, Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast One hundred and fifty years after twin defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg destroyed the South’s quest for independence, the region is again on the rise. […]
Housing Boom Is The Best Chance For A Recovery For The Rest Of Us
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Our tepid economic recovery has been profoundly undemocratic in nature. Between the “too big to fail” banks and Ben Bernanke’s policy of dropping free money from helicopters […]
The Cities That Are Stealing Finance Jobs From Wall Street
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Over the past 60 years, financial services’ share of the economy has exploded from 2.5% to 8.5% of GDP. Even if you believe, as we do, that […]
Southern California Economy Not Keeping Up
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register One of Orange County’s top executives asked me over lunch recently why Southern California has not seen anything like the kind of tech boom now […]
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based […]
America’s New Manufacturing Boomtowns
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Conventional wisdom for a generation has been that manufacturing in America is dying. Yet over the past five years, the country has experienced something of an industrial […]
Housing Market Fringe Movement
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register A year or two ago, pundits and planners, in California and elsewhere, proclaimed – and largely celebrated – the demise of suburbia. They were particularly […]
The 2013 Best Cities For Job Growth
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The 2013 edition of our list shows many things, but perhaps the most important is which cities have momentum in the job creation sweepstakes. Right now the […]
CA vs. The Suburbs: Planners, Smart Growth, and the Manhattan Delusion
/in Urban AffairsIn: Reason TV Joel was recently featured in this short video piece about central planning in Los Angeles and its impact on local neighborhoods. Watch the video below.