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10 MOST AFFLUENT CITIES IN THE WORLD: MACAU AND HARTFORD TOP THE LIST
in Demographics, Economics, Planning, Urban Issues/by Mike Newby Wendell Cox 02/21/2015 The United States and Europe continue to dominate the list of strongest metropolitan areas (city) economies in the world, according to the Brookings Institution’s recently released Global Metro Monitor 2014.This is measured by gross domestic product per capita, adjusted for purchasing power parity (GDP-PPP). Brookings points out that this does not […]
EUROPE IS STILL A SECOND-RATE POWER
in Economics, Education, Housing, Urban Issues/by Mike Newby Joel Kotkin 02/21/2015 In the years after the Cold War, much was written about Europe’s emergence as the third great force in the global political economy, alongside Asia and the United States. Some, such as former French President Francois Mitterand’s eminence grise Jacques Attali, went even further: in his 1991 book Millenium Attali predicted […]
50 YEARS OF US POVERTY: 1960 TO 2010
in Demographics, Economics/by Joseph BecseyBy Richard Morrill 02/19/2015 Although inequality is the current focus of concern with income, it is in the end a story of the rich,the middle and the poor, who of course have not gone away. It is valuable to remind ourselves, particularly the young, about how pervasive poverty was 50 years ago, how poverty declined […]
TEXAS… DOOMED TO REPEAT CALIFORNIA’S MISTAKES?
in Event, Planning, Urban Issues/by Joseph BecseyTEXAS…DOOMED TO REPEAT CALIFORNIA’S MISTAKES? Please join Dick Weekley, Walt Mischer, Kendall Miller, Alan Hassenflu, and Leo Linbeck, III on March 12th, Hilton @ 2001 Post Oak Boulevard, Ballroom “C” 11:30 am Networking, Noon lunch Presentation and Panel, Adjourn @ 1:15 RSVP by March 9th – 866-573-8201 or contact-us@opportunityurbanism.org California’s tough environmental rules and planning […]
IS JAKARTA THE WORLD’S MOST CONGESTED CITY?
in Demographics, Planning, Urban Issues/by Mike Newby Wendell Cox 02/13/2015 The world’s second-largest city, Jakarta, is its most congested according to the Castrol Magnatec Stop-Start Index. The Start-Stop Index estimates the average number of starts and stops per vehicle in 78 cities around the world. Jakarta drivers had 33,240 starts and stops annually according to the survey. A higher number of […]
THE EMERGING NEW ASPIRATIONAL SUBURB
in Demographics, Housing, Small Cities, Suburbs/by Mike Newby Aaron M. Renn Urban form in American cities is in a constant state of evolution. Until recent years, American suburbia was often built without an appreciation for future evolution. This has left many older suburbs in a deteriorated state, and has accelerated claims of a more generalized suburban decline. The Indianapolis suburb of Carmel represents […]
AMERICA NEEDS THE TEXAS ECONOMY TO KEEP ON ROLLING
in Economics, Education, Planning, Urban Issues/by Mike Newby Joel Kotkin 02/12/2015 In the last decade, Texas emerged as America’s new land of opportunity — if you will, America’s America. Since the start of the recession, the Lone Star State has been responsible for the majority of employment growth in the country. Between November 2007 and November 2014, the United States gained a […]
GO EAST, YOUNG SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WORKERS
in Demographics, Education, Planning, Small Cities, Urban Issues/by Mike Newby Joel Kotkin 02/09/2015 Do the middle class and working class have a future in the Southland? If they do, that future will be largely determined in the Inland Empire, the one corner of Southern California that seems able to accommodate large-scale growth in population and jobs. If Southern California’s economy is going to grow, […]
Housing the Future
in Economics, Education, Housing/by Mike NewThe Inland Empire as Southern California’s Indispensable Geography Read the Report (PDF)
PRAYING IN THE STREETS: RITUAL AS AN URBAN DESIGN PROBLEM
in Planning, Urban Issues/by Mike Newby Sarah Perry 02/07/2015 “he city as World icon is being destroyed, not by being secularized (it was always secular at base with some sacral potencies shooting through it from every angle) but by being radically profaned. The city has become the playground not of Wisdom but the battleground of savages, as in Belfast and […]