Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs
Appearing in: Forbes With Twitter’s high-profile IPO, the media and much of the pundit class are revisiting one of their favorite themes: the superiority of the brash, young urban tech […]
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Bipartisan Distrust of the Beltway
Appearing in: The Orange County Register Much has been written and spoken about the deep divide between “red” and “blue” America, but the real chasm increasingly is between Washington and […]
California’s New Feudalism Benefits a Few at the Expense of the Multitude
Appearing in: The Daily Beast Much has been written and spoken about the deep divide between “red” and “blue” America, but the real chasm increasingly is between Washington and the […]
Democratic “Upstairs-Downstairs” Coalition at Risk
Appearing in: Orange County Register Michael Bloomberg’s passing from New York City Hall, and his likely replacement as mayor by a fire-breathing populist Democrat, Bill de Blasio, marks a historic […]
America’s Fastest-Growing Counties: The ‘Burbs Are Back
Appearing in: Forbes For nearly a half century, the death of suburbs and exurbs has been prophesied by pundits, urban real-estate interests and their media allies, and they ratcheted up […]
Thinking Outside the Rails on Transit
Appearing in: Orange County Register To many in the transit business – that is, people who seek to profit from the development and growth of buses, trains and streetcars – […]
The Next Urban Crisis, And How We Might Be Able To Avoid It
Appearing in: Forbes Urban boosters are rightly proud of the progress American cities have made since their nadir in the 1970s; Harvard economist Ed Glaeser has gone so far as […]
City Leaders Are in Love With Density but Most City Dwellers Disagree
Appearing in: The Daily Beast People care deeply about where they live. If you ever doubt that, remember this: they staged massive protests over a park in Istanbul. Gezi Park near Taksim […]
America’s True Power In The NAFTA Century
Appearing in: Forbes OK, I get it. Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama we have made complete fools of ourselves on the international stage, outmaneuvered by petty lunatics and crafty kleptocrats […]
Book Review: ‘The End of the Suburbs,’ by Leigh Gallagher
Appearing in: Wall Street Journal Suburbia has been a favorite whipping boy of urbane intellectuals, who have foretold its decline for decades. Leigh Gallagher’s “The End of the Suburbs” is […]
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