Exporting Higher Education and Global Innovation Networks
Why Japan's minister for education and science is making it a priority to double the import and export of university students.
Urban Islands of Poverty and Bowling With Strangers
Questioning our understanding of "gentrification" is a necessary first step toward helping people who are stuck in impoverished neighborhoods.
The Great Creative Class Migration
The demand for labor explains a lot of migration patterns. Where the uneducated once moved to staff large industrial centers, now those with the means and a college education flock to feed the Innovation Economy that is rising from their ashes.
Gentrification Is Not About Race and Class, but Fear of Outsiders
More than anything else, gentrification is about the tension between the mobile and the stuck.
Rabenmutter: Germany Waging the War for Talent Without Women
Germany is facing a serious talent shortage, but the country continues to stigmatize working mothers, who are already underpaid and underemployed.
Urban Frontier Mythology
Where the creative class, to use urbanist Richard Florida's term, are moving to today—and why.
That New York City Magic
Mayor Bloomberg is wrong: The Big Apple's main attraction isn't "safe and clean streets." Why, then, do people move there?
Lena Dunham Wants Brooklyn to Be More Like Chattanooga
"If they struggle for too long, they're leaving New York for Seattle, Chicago, Austin, and in some cases, even Tampa. We can't have our generation's Patti Smith moving to Tampa."
Rust Belt Landscapes and Memory
In which Robert Putnam of Bowling Alone fame romanticizes his hometown of Port Clinton, Ohio.