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The New Class Warfare
Few states have offered the class warriors of Occupy Wall Street more enthusiastic support than California has. Before they overstayed their welcome and police began dispersing their camps, the...
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Homebuilding Recovery: How CAD Stifles Solutions
The Recovery Blueprint is a multipart series on homebuilding. Part II addresses how a reliance on CAD software and a lack of collaboration stifle sustainable land development solutions. The front cover...
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2012 How We Pick the Best Cities For Job Growth
Small Sized Cities Medium Sized Cities Large Sized Cities All Cities We seek to measure the robustness of a region’s growth both recently and over time. We look at all of the metropolitan statistical...
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The Best Cities for Jobs 2012
Throughout the brutal recession, one metropolitan area floated serenely above the carnage: Washington, D.C. Buoyed by government spending, the local economy expanded 17% from 2007 to 2012. But for the...
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World Urban Areas Population and Density: A 2012 Update
The latest edition of Demographia World Urban Areas has just been released. The publication includes population estimates, urban land area estimates and urban densities for all nearly 850 identified...
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Australian Elections: A Comeback for Pro-growth Policy?
The latest local government elections in Queensland, along with the by election for former Premier Anna Bligh’s state seat of South Brisbane, may point to a fundamental shift in popular mood back in...
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Is Negative Population Growth Upon Us? Deaths Exceed Births in One Third of...
Population change has short run and long run effects. Short run effects include changes in fertility rates that can result from economic fluctuations. For example, during a recession, couples may delay...
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The OECD Reviews Chicago
“Although still high in absolute terms, GDP and labor productivity growth rates are sluggish – both by US and international standards. The Chicago Tri-State metro-region’s contribution to national...
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Small Cities Are Becoming a New Engine Of Economic Growth
The conventional wisdom is that the world’s largest cities are going to be the primary drivers of economic growth and innovation. Even slums, according to a fawning article in National Geographic,...
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The Export Business in California (People and Jobs)
California Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg countered my Wall Street Journal commentary California Declares War on Suburbia in a letter to the editor (A Bold Plan for Sustainable California...
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Right in the Middle: The Midwest’s Growth Lessons for America
The Midwest’s troubles are well-known. The decline of manufacturing has resulted in job losses and dying industrial towns. The best and brightest have fled the flatlands for more exciting, sunnier,...
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Homebuilding Recovery: A Zoning & Planning Overhaul
Part III of the Recovery Blueprint for homebuilding. Defining good zoning and good planning, and a look at how social engineering plays in. What exactly is ‘planning’? It can be government creation of...
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London’s Social Cleansing
Unscrupulous landlords are forcing poorer tenants out of their London homes, freeing them up to rent out to visitors to the Olympics this summer, according to the housing charity Shelter. At the same...
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Smart-Growth and Smarter Technology
If you’re an enviro-regulator with a mission, preventing “sprawl” has been ideologically trendy in recent decades. You have successfully predicated your argument on past-history soils-management...
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Toward More Competitive Canadian Metropolitan Areas
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCN) and the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) have expressed serious concern about generally longer commute trip times making Canadian metropolitan...
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The Best Cities For Tech Jobs
With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without question, the west side of San Francisco Bay is by far the most...
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Facebook’s IPO Testifies to Silicon Valley’s Power but Does Little for Other...
The $104 billion Facebook IPO testifies to the still considerable innovative power of Silicon Valley, but the hoopla over the new wave of billionaires won’t change the basic reality of the state’s...
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CNU20: Shootout at the New Urbanism Congress
I knew there was the possibility that this month's Congress of New Urbanism — CNU20 — in West Palm Beach would be an exercise in brainwashing. While I was excited to be meeting some of the thinkers at...
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CNU20: New Urbanism Suffers Some Young Adult Angst
Possibly the most earnest folks in the real estate development industry assembled for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Congress of the New Urbanism in West Palm Beach, Florida this month....
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How “Public” Is the Public Sector?
You may have heard the old joke about the convenience store with a neon sign blaring, “Open 24 Hours”. A customer stops in one morning for coffee, and confronts the store’s owner, “Your sign says ‘Open...
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