Demographia World Urban Areas contains population, land area and population density for the nearly 1,000 identified built-up urban areas in the world with 500,000 or more population. The total population of these urban areas is estimated at 2.36 billion, representing 52 percent of the world urban population as estimated by the United Nations. read more »
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Jakarta Closing Population Gap with Tokyo
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Make America California
Like the buffoonish commanding officer in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Gavin Newsom for many represents “the very model of a modern Major-General,” filling the expectations of the progressive political elite. read more »
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Will the UAW Strike Perpetuate the Death Spiral Already Mandated for the Auto Industry?
The UAW strike that began September 14th by 146,000 UAW union members seeking a 46 percent pay raise, and a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay, and restoration of traditional pensions read more »
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Whatever Happened to the Great West Coast Cities?
As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what seemed like an inevitable downturn, the urban agglomerations along the Pacific coast offered a demonstrably brighter urban future. From San Diego to the Puget Sound, urban centers along America’s western edge continued to thrive read more »
Beauty and the Rust Belt, Part 2: The Lakefront Dividend Example
Here’s a followup to some of the points made in my last post, and a response to readers and Twitter (X) commenters.
First, a quick refresh on my earlier post. read more »
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History Matters
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
~Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire read more »
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Richards Bay: the Gateway for Africa’s LNG Goldmine
South Africa is one of the few countries that developed from the interior towards the coast, with Gauteng’s prosperity built around mining activity, the steady supply of water from Lesotho, and the availability of energy from the rich coal fields of the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. read more »
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Mandating EVs While Discouraging Mining is a Recipe for Disaster
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” wrote the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This may prove no problem to the West’s climate-obsessed elites, who rail about the coming apocalypse, even while undermining the production of the very resources that would be essential if they are to have any chance to reach their cherished “net zero” utopia. read more »
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Sen. Marco Rubio's Report on the Working (and Non-Working) Man
For Labor Day, Senator Marco Rubio’s office issued a report on “The State of the Working (and Non-Working) Man.” I thought it was very interesting and wanted to highlight parts of it. read more »
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U.S. Fertility Rates Lowest in History
U.S. fertility rates have fallen to just 1.6 per woman. This has led some to fear that the United States may face the same kind of demographic collapse that is besetting Japan. read more »
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