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The Emergence of Texas Urbanism; The Triangle Takes Off
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.Throughout the history of the United States, much of the...
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The Texas Urban Model
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.The future of American cities can be summed up in five...
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The Dallas Way of Urban Growth
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) has started the 21st century with...
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Houston, City of Opportunity
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.Creative friction – unchaperoned and unprescribed – is...
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Opportunity Urbanism: The Tech Edition
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.Any observer of urbanism in America knows that Austin...
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Military Employment and the Upward Mobility of Latinos in San Antonio
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.The long presence of military installations extending...
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San Antonio: Growth and Success in the Mexican-American Capital
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.For decades, as many U.S. cities declined, and others...
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A Summary of the Analysis and Motivators of Growth in the Austin - San...
This essay is part of a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism titled "The Texas Way of Urbanism". Download the entire report here.A new economic corridor is emerging in the center of...
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How the Left and Right Can Learn to Love Localism: The Constitutional Cure...
The ever worsening polarization of American politics—demonstrated and accentuated by the Trump victory—is now an undeniable fact of our daily life. Yet rather than allowing the guilty national parties...
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Babes In Trumpland: The Coming Rise Of The Heartland Cities
Contrary to the media notion that Donald Trump's surprising electoral victory represented merely the actions of unwashed “deplorables," his winning margin was the outcome of rational thinking in those...
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World’s Most Affluent Areas: Dominated by Low Population Densities
The Brookings Institution is again out with data on the world’s most affluent metropolitan areas. The GDP data is in Redefining Global Cities, which contains a treasure trove of data. Again, United...
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Agglomeration in Los Angeles
The Economy of CitiesCities have been called “engines of growth”. What does that mean?Fly over a major city and what do you see? Not well defined centers and sub-centers. More likely, an amazing...
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The Future of Racial Politics
From its inception, the American experiment has been dogged by racial issues. Sadly, this was even truer this year. Eight years after electing the first African-American president, not only are race...
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The End of Eyes on the Street
Jane Jacobs talked about the “sidewalk ballet” of her neighborhood and the importance of eyes on the street. But her conception of that, one where shopkeepers policed the sidewalks in front of their...
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Are We Going fascist?
The rise, and then the improbable election, of Donald Trump have reawakened progressive fears of a mounting authoritarian tide. With his hyperbole and jutting chin, he strikes some progressives as a...
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TruMpISSION Impossible: Deportation
This is the first in an occasional series of articles that will look at some of the campaign promises made by Donald Trump in his run-up to November 8, 2016. I will be taking a “by the numbers” look at...
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Sydney Lurches to Housing Affordability Disaster
Now and again Australia erupts in controversy about housing affordability. Each time it follows the same course. Some new statistic or media story confirms that prices are out of control. A senior...
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Advancing the Texan City-Building Model
Reading the recent report “The Texas Way of Urbanism” promptly reminded me of my status – twice a migrant; from small town to big city (Athens) and from big city to another country. These moves were...
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Everyday Encounters: Antagonism in the Sharing Economy
Much has been written about the growth of the sharing economy where information technology, such as mobile apps and automated software facilitate interactions between businesses, individual workers,...
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How Silicon Valley’s Oligarchs Are Learning to Stop Worrying and Love Trump
The oligarchs’ ball at Trump Tower revealed one not-so-well-kept secret about the tech moguls: They are more like the new president than they are like you or me.In what devolved into something of a...
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