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The Problem With Being Global
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes The globalization of cities and their elites often comes at the expense of many of the people who live there. Forced to compete with foreign capital and […]
Tracking America’s ‘Hidden Millennials’
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register When it comes to attracting the hip and cool, Southern California, long a cultural trendsetter, appears to be falling behind – at least in the view […]
In the Future We’ll All Be Renters: America’s Disappearing Middle Class
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast An Excerpt from Joel Kotkin’s Forthcoming book The New Class Conflict available for pre-order now from Telos Press and in bookstores September, 2014. In ways not seen since […]
Size is not the Answer: The Changing Face of the Global City
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Civil Service College of Singapore This is an exerpt from a new report published by Civil Service College of Singapore, authored by Joel Kotkin with contributions from Wendell […]
Millennial Boomtowns: Where The Generation Is Clustering (It’s Not Downtown)
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes Much has been written about the supposed preference of millennials to live in hip urban settings where cars are not necessary. Surveys of best cities for millennials […]
Democrats Risk Blue-collar Rebellion
/in California, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register If California is to change course and again become a place of opportunity, the impetus is likely to come not from the perennially shrinking Republican […]
Don’t be so Dense About Housing
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register Southern California faces a crisis of confidence. A region that once imagined itself as a new model of urbanity – what the early 20th century minister […]
One-party Rule is No Party in California
/in California, PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register Forty years ago, Mexico was a one-party dictatorship under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, hobbled by slow growth, soaring inequality, endemic corruption and dead politics. California, in contrast, […]
Joel Discusses Splits in the Democratic Party with Doug McIntyre at Los Angeles’s KABC radio
/in In the News, PoliticsBy: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: McIntyre In The Morning Joel recently appeared with Doug McIntyre on KABC Los Angeles to talk about the how the future of the Democratic […]
To Fight Inequality, Blue States Need To Shift Focus To Blue-Collar Jobs
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes In the coming election, we will hear much, particularly from progressives, about inequality, poverty and racism. We already can see this in the pages of mainstream media, […]