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Megacities And The Density Delusion: Why More People Doesn’t Equal More Wealth
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com Perhaps no idea is more widely accepted among urban core theorists than the notion that higher population densities lead to more productivity and sustainable economic growth. Yet […]
Class Warfare for Republicans
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register As a Truman-style Democrat left politically homeless, I am often asked about the future of the Republican Party. Some Republicans want to push racial buttons […]
Fracking Offers Jerry Brown a Watershed Moment
/in CaliforniaAppearing in: Orange County Register The recent announcement that Jerry Brown is studying "fracking" in California, suggests that our governor may be waking up to the long-term reality facing our […]
The World’s Fastest-Growing Megacities
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it’s increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined […]
Progessives, Preservation & Prosperity
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register Conservatives often fret that Barack Obama is leading the nation toward socialism. In my mind, that’s an insult to socialism, which, in theory, at least, […]
Marissa Mayer’s Misstep And The Unstoppable Rise Of Telecommuting
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Marissa Mayer’s pronunciamento banning home-based work at Yahoo reflects a great dilemma facing companies and our country over the coming decade. Forget for a minute the amazing […]
Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Among the most pervasive, and arguably pernicious, notions of the past decade has been that the “creative class” of the skilled, educated and hip would […]
America’s Fastest- and Slowest-Growing Cities
/in DemographicsAppearing in: Forbes.com Since the housing crash of 2007, the decline of the Sun Belt and dispersed, low-density cities has been trumpeted by the national media and by pundits who […]
Joel Talking Growth Corridors on Wisconsin Public Radio
/in Demographics, In the NewsBy: Wisconsin Public Radio On: At Issue, with John Munson John recently talked with John Munson, host of At Issue on Wisconsin Public Radio about the nation’s emerging growth corridors. […]
The Real Winners Of The Global Economy: The Material Boys
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Something strange happened on the road to our much-celebrated post-industrial utopia. The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the creative types […]