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Transforming Kokomo: No Need to Move Mountains
Across the country—but particularly in the heavily industrialized Northeast and Midwest—smaller cities have confronted the grim realities of the unflattering “Rust Belt” moniker, and all of its...
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California Drought: How To Share An Emergency
California has big troubles. It hasn’t rained for two years. Our reservoirs are almost depleted. Our aquifers are being overdrawn. Forecasts for next winter’s rain, which were optimistic not long ago,...
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Boomers: Moving Further Out and Away
There have been frequent press reports that baby boomers, those born between 1945 and 1964, are abandoning the suburbs and moving "back" to the urban cores (actually most suburban residents did not...
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The World's Most Influential Cities
In the past century, the greatest global cities were generally the largest and centers of the world’s great empires: London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. Today size is not so important: Of the world’s 10...
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Integrating Immigrants: Outcomes Not Attitudes Matter
Many modern economies struggle with integrating foreign-born into their labor markets. In particular, low-skilled immigrants from poor countries experience high unemployment and a range of related...
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The People Designing Your Cities Don't Care What You Want
What is a city for?It’s a crucial question, but one rarely asked by the pundits and developers who dominate the debate over the future of the American city.Their current conventional wisdom embraces...
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The Problem with Megacities
This is the introduction to a new report from the Center for Demographic and Policy at Champan University. The report was authored by Joel Kotkin with contributions from Wendell Cox, Ali Modarres, and...
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A Look at College Degree Migration
Net migration of people to or from metro areas is reported annually by the Census Bureau and widely discussed. Less well known is that their American Community Survey (ACS) provides migration figures...
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Tracking America's 'Hidden Millennials'
When it comes to attracting the hip and cool, Southern California, long a cultural trendsetter, appears to be falling behind – at least in the view of the national media. Articles about where...
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Beyond Polycentricity: 2000s Job Growth (Continues to) Follow Population
The United States lost jobs between 2000 and 2010, the first loss between census years that has been recorded in the nation's history. The decline was attributable to two economic shocks, the...
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The Problem With Being Global
The globalization of cities and their elites often comes at the expense of many of the people who live there. Forced to compete with foreign capital and immigrant workers, native-born residents of...
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A Typology of Gentrification
Patterns of gentrification vary by city, and the spread of gentrified areas is partly determined by the city’s predominant development form and the historic levels of African-American populations...
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Welcome to the Billion-Man Slum
When our urban pundit class speaks of the future of cities, we are offered glittering images of London, New York, Singapore, or Shanghai. In reality, the future for most of the world’s...
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Ranking America's Top Young Labor Forces: A Rust Belt Rising?
This is a new report brief from the Center for Population Dynamics at Cleveland State University, download the pdf version here. The report was authored by Richey Piiparinen, Charlie Post, and Jim...
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Urbanist Goals Will Mean Fewer Children, more Seniors Needing Government Help
America’s cognitive elites and many media pundits believe high-density development will dominate the country’s future.That could be so, but, if it is the case, also expect far fewer Americans — and far...
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Why Modern Architecture Struggles to Inspire Catholics
Inspired by a recent visit to a Le Corbusier-designed Dominican monastery near the French city of Lyon, I’ve been thinking a lot about the interaction between Catholicism and modernist aesthetics. It...
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L.A. Hanging on as a Top Global City
For more than a century, Southern Californians have dreamed of their region becoming host to a great global city. At the turn of the 20th century Henry Huntington, who built much of the area’s first...
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Chicago's Planning Strategy: Hot or Not?
The City of Broad Shoulders may have two faces, but how will it age?This was the essence of the question that the Chicago Tribune was asking in October of 2013 when it urged readers to re-envision the...
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America's Fastest-Growing Small Cities
Coverage of America’s changing urban scene tends to focus heavily on large metropolitan areas and the “megaregions” now often said to dominate the economic future. Often missed has been a slow, but...
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Traffic Congestion in the World: 10 Worst and Best Cities
The continuing improvement in international traffic congestion data makes comparisons between different cities globally far easier. Annual reports (2013) by Tom Tom have been expanded to include China,...
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