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Urbanist Goals Will Mean Fewer Children, more Seniors Needing Government Help
/in Urban AffairsAppearing in: Washington Examiner America’s cognitive elites and many media pundits believe high-density development will dominate the country’s future. That could be so, but, if it is the case, also […]
Welcome to the Billion-Man Slum
/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast When our urban pundit class speaks of the future of cities, we are offered glittering images of London, New York, Singapore, or Shanghai. In reality, […]
Joel Talks about the Lack of Kids in Southern California
/in California, Demographics, Urban AffairsBy: Doug McIntyre in the Morning In: KABC Radio Joel joined Doug McIntyre on LA’s KABC to talk about the decline of children in Southern California. Click the Play button below to […]
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 […]