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The Cities Americans Are Thronging To And Fleeing
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Cities get ranked in numerous ways — by income, hipness, tech-savviness and livability — but there may be nothing more revealing about the shifting fortunes of our […]
China’s Planned City Bubble Is About to Pop—and Even You’ll Feel It
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Seven years after the last housing debacle devastated the world economy, we may be on the verge of another, albeit different, bubble. If the last […]
Becoming America the Not-So-Beautiful
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register “They don’t know history, but they are making it. But what are they making?” – Victor Serge, “The Conquered City,” 1932 In contrast to the […]
The Comeback Of The Great Lakes States
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes For generations the broad swath of America along the Great Lakes has been regarded as something of a backwater. Educated workers and sophisticated industries have tended to […]
Economic Progress is More Effective Than Protests
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast The election of Barack Obama promised to inaugurate the dawn of a post-racial America. Instead we seem to be stepping ever deeper into a racial […]
Tech Oligarchs Tightening Their Grip on Democrats
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register The current state of the Republican Party may seem like a demolition derby, but there’s an equally fascinating, if less well-understood, conflict within the Democratic […]
An Improbable And Fragile Comeback: New Orleans 10 Years After Katrina
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes In the fall of 2005, many saw in postdiluvial New Orleans another example of failed urbanization, a formerly great city that was broken beyond repair.Yet 10 years after a […]
What Jane Jacobs Got Wrong About Cities
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Few people have had more influence on thinking about cities than the late Jane Jacobs. The onetime New Yorker turned Torontonian, Jacobs, who died in […]
The Cities Leading A U.S. Manufacturing Revival
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes Manufacturing may no longer drive the U.S. economy, but industrial growth remains a powerful force in many regions of the country. Industrial employment has surged over the […]
Latino Politicians Putting Climate Change Ahead of Constituents
/in California, PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register Racial and economic inequality may be key issues facing America today, but the steps often pushed by progressives, including minority politicians, seem more likely to […]