Burgh Diaspora

The economy we measure isn't the economy we have.

Henry Ford and Detroit radically changed the economic geography of the world. Now, Jeff Bezos and Seattle are poised to do the same.

If New York City is your adolescent self, then Los Angeles is what you aspire to.

California is a fortress of gentrification.

The decline of the Southern drawl maps the diffusion of knowledge production in the United States.

A sweet spot in the Technology Readiness Level attracts private industry.

A metro only exists for those who can afford to commute.

Wage convergence is hitting many industries, including higher education as well as oil and gas.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Regions where Millennials are renting don't look like where they will buy homes.

Focus more on people, less on place.

With a focus on why people leave, we ignore at least half of the migration story.

The ontology of refugee is the problem, not the solution.

Nations—and even cities—don't globalize. Globalization spreads block by block.

Houston has a de facto zoning problem.

Get ready for an unprecedented economic boom in the United States.

In 2006, the digital economy underwent a dramatic transformation that changed the map of talent migration.

Journalists have replaced teachers as the curators of expertise.

In order for tech workers to cash out on home equity, Proposition 13 forces them to move to another state.

With the homeland as neither nation nor state, Puerto Ricans twist in the wind of political whimsy.

From 2000–2013, Atlanta has fallen further behind other large metros in growing its population of college-educated young adults.

Communities might roll out the red carpet for the foreign-born, but the more welcoming disposition doesn't do the trick.

Out of necessity, old habits die easily for migrants.

A shrinking population isn't the end of economic expansion.