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Report: Building the New America
How do we build a new urban model for America — one that is better aligned with the aspirations of most Americans? This newly released report examines the housing trends that are driving today's migration of people and jobs.
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China’s Planned City Bubble Is About to Pop—and Even You’ll Feel It
By Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox — U.S. housing planners have long ignored the public’s desire for...
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Putting People First
By Wendell Cox
An Alternative Perspective with an Evaluation…
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How California Could Have Avoided Its Epic Water Crisis
By Alex Manning — California's water crisis is the disaster everybody saw coming but nobody had the political will to stop: Joel Kotkin discusses the Golden State disaster...
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Economic Progress is More Effective Than Protests
By Joel Kotkin
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the new wave of black…
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What Jane Jacobs Got Wrong About Cities
By Joel Kotkin
The peerless urban theorist misunderstood…
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Mall’s Washed Up? Not Quite Yet
By Joel Kotkin — The conventional wisdom wrote off the shopping mall long ago, but while no one was looking, the reinvented mall...
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Best Poverty Cure: Escape from Baltimore
By William McGurn — New evidence shows minorities now do better in the American South. Of all the “solutions” for post-riot Baltimore, the best poverty cure...
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Better Suburbs = Better Cities: Employment and the Importance of the Suburban Economy
By Ross Elliot — Australia’s inner city areas and CBDs are a focus of media and public policy attention, with good reason...
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Dispersion and Concentration in Metropolitan Employment
By Wendall Cox
The just released County Business Patterns indicates…
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America’s Inner Cities Mirror Baltimore’s Woes
By Joel Kotkin...
Amid all the happy talk about the revival…