
The Future of Cities
Whatever the future holds for humanity, it is likely to take place in an urban context. Yet, there are many, and sometimes divergent, urban futures. This book is being published as a series, with permission of the American Enterprise Institute. Please return weekly to read each chapter as it is published.

America’s Inner Cities Mirror Baltimore’s Woes
By Joel Kotkin...
Amid all the happy talk about the revival…

California is so Over
By Joel Kotkin:
California has met the future, and it really…

PIKETTY’S WEALTH DRIVEN INEQUALITY: VIRTUALLY ALL IN HOUSING?
By Wendell Cox — The Economist headline reads...

THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION, INCOME GROWTH AND POVERTY IN AMERICA
By Joel Kotkin — We often rate metropolitan areas for their performance over one year, five or at most 10, but...

California’s SOCIAL PRIORITIES
AUTHORS:
David Friedman and Jennifer Hernandez are attorneys…

CORRUPT ILLINOIS: NOT A FEW BAD APPLES
by Steve Bartin 02/26/2015
Despite a huge advantage in…

Misunderstanding the millennials
BY JOEL KOTKIN
The millennial generation has had much…

10 MOST AFFLUENT CITIES IN THE WORLD: MACAU AND HARTFORD TOP THE LIST
by Wendell Cox 02/21/2015
The United States and Europe…

EUROPE IS STILL A SECOND-RATE POWER
by Joel Kotkin 02/21/2015
In the years after the Cold War,…

50 YEARS OF US POVERTY: 1960 TO 2010
By Richard Morrill 02/19/2015
Although inequality is the current…