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Hard Times In The High Desert

September 15, 2009/in California, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes.com The High Desert region north and east of Los Angeles sits 3,000 feet above sea level. A rough, often starkly beautiful region of scrubby trees, wide vistas […]

Smart Growth Must Not Ignore Drivers

September 14, 2009/in Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Politico For the time being, battles over health care and energy seem likely to occupy the attention of both the Obama administration and its critics. Yet although now […]

The Kid Issue

September 8, 2009/in Demographics, The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes Japan’s recent election, which overthrew the decades-long hegemony of the Liberal Democratic Party, was remarkable in its own right. But perhaps its most intriguing aspect was not […]

World Capitals Of The Future

September 3, 2009/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes For most of those which were great once are small today; And those that used to be small were great in my own time. Knowing, therefore, that […]

Rome Vs. Gotham

August 25, 2009/in Politics, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes Urban politicians have widely embraced the current concentration of power in Washington, but they may soon regret the trend they now so actively champion. The great protean […]

The New Radicals

August 18, 2009/in Politics

Appearing in: Forbes America’s “kumbaya” moment has come and gone. The nation’s brief feel-good era initiated by Barack Obama’s stirring post-partisan rhetoric–and fortified by John McCain’s classy concession speech–has dissolved […]

Why The ‘Livable Cities’ Rankings Are Wrong

August 11, 2009/in Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes Few topics stir more controversy between urbanists and civic boosters than city rankings. What truly makes a city “great,” or even “livable”? The answers, and how these […]

Green Jobs Can’t Save The Economy

August 4, 2009/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes Nothing is perhaps more pathetic than the exertions of economic developers and politicians grasping at straws, particularly during hard times. Over the past decade, we have turned […]

Forget Second Stimulus; We Need Economic Vision

July 31, 2009/in The Economy

Appearing in: Politico As the American economy slowly heals, the Obama administration will no doubt claim some credit for its $787 billion stimulus — and perhaps even suggest doubling down […]

Salinas Dispatch: A Silver Lining in the Golden State

July 28, 2009/in California, Rural Policy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes From a distance, a crisis often takes on ideological colorings. This is true in California, where the ongoing fiscal meltdown has devolved into a struggle between anti-tax […]