The much-celebrated California boom is facing a harsh reality.
Everything was looking good, based on enormous growth in capital gains in tech stocks and property, and some in Sacramento assumed the bounty would last — until it didn’t. read more »
Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and political commentary about placesCalifornia's Budget Surplus Has Vanished; Its Economy is Facing a Harsh Reality
by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky 01/17/2023
The much-celebrated California boom is facing a harsh reality. Everything was looking good, based on enormous growth in capital gains in tech stocks and property, and some in Sacramento assumed the bounty would last — until it didn’t. read more » »
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California Dominates Urban Area Density Rankings
by Wendell Cox 01/16/2023
The newly released Census Bureau urban area reveals all 10 or the densest urban areas are in California, as well as 39 of the densest 50, and 70 of the 100. read more » »
The Future of Cities: Introduction
by Joel Kotkin 01/15/2023
Whatever the future holds for humanity, it is likely to take place in an urban context. Yet, as this book will demonstrate, there are many, and sometimes divergent, urban futures. read more » »
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Welcome to Austin
by Pete Saunders 01/13/2023
I'm going to make a little deviation from the bulk of the "Welcome to..." stories you see below, which mostly focus on South Side Chicago neighborhoods (the exceptions are Rosemont, in Chicago's northwest suburbs, and Park Forest, in the south suburbs). read more » »
Let Cities Be What They Want to Be
by Randal OToole 01/12/2023
An on-line site called the Dumber, er, I mean Intelligancer says that, for cities to survive, developers must be allowed to convert office buildings into housing. read more »
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It's Time for Region to Collect Opportunity We Left on the Table
by Dale Buss 01/11/2023
For all the talk about how the pandemic, remote work, social distancing and other huge new developments have dislodged traditional patterns in business and life in America and created vast new opportunities in the process, Flyover Country has left a lot on the table. read more » »
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A Nation of Giants Led By Pygmies
by Joel Kotkin 01/10/2023
The United States today stands as a living contradiction to the ‘great man theory of history’. For the US is a great country led by small minds. read more » »
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2020 Urban Areas and Data Announced (United States)
by Wendell Cox 01/09/2023
Note: This is a revised version., which reflects a correction by the Census Bureau to the San Francisco-Oakland urban area, into which has been combined the San Rafael-Novato urban area. San Francisco-Oakland remains the 14th largest urban area, but now ranks behind Los Angeles in density. The revised data is in the table at the end of this article. The fully revised replacement article is available here. read more » »
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Can Capitalism Save Hollywood?
by Joel Kotkin 01/08/2023
After a decade of rapid growth, the nation’s media and entertainment complex is facing retrenchment and, perhaps, a necessary reappraisal. Firms are consolidating. Workers are being laid off at Disney read more » »
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Still Wrong! Paul Ehrlich Interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes
by Marian L. Tupy 01/06/2023
CBS decided to start the new year with a 60 Minutes segment on overpopulation. That’s not really all that surprising. In recent months, many left-leaning media outlets profiled advocates of depopulation read more »
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