Silicon Valley Is Detroit: Are Zoning Laws to Blame?
Peter Thiel is concerned that innovation cannot afford San Francisco or New York City.
Burgh Diaspora
Creative Urban Spaces Don't Promote Innovation
No, cities are powered by the exploitation of ambition.
The Geography of Anti-Gentrification: Google Buses and Protests
Why aren't Google and Twitter welcome in San Francisco?
Ireland: Gentrification of a Nation
The term is selectively applied, depending on personal politics, and obscures much more pressing problems.
Why Is Gentrification Such a Hot Topic?
For a new demographic, the urban zip code has cachet.
New York City's Perpetual Gentrification
Why the loudest anti-gentrification protesters come from the wealthiest areas in the wealthiest countries in the entire world.
Identity: State of Mind or State of Place?
The ongoing debates about gentrification boil down to nothing more than one big turf war.
YURPs, Burps, and Globalizing Big Easy: Gentrification in New Orleans
The effects of gentrification in New Orleans.
Transit Oriented Boondoggle: The Problem With the Detroit Streetcar
Investment in any kind of transportation should aid production, not consumption.
U.S. Geography of News Stories
Most news coverage in America is focused on L.A., D.C., and New York. Can a new independent radio program change that?
Legacy Economy: Pittsburgh Steel Crazy After All These Years
"Manufacturing is no longer just about production. Production is now the core of a much wider set of activities."
Economic Geography of Eds and Meds: Welcome to the Talent Economy
What's happening with institutions of higher education and medicine?
It's the Birth Rate, Stupid
Explaining the "curious" population trend in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Immigration and Gentrification: Cultures Clash Over Space and Place
Are our romantic attachments to place to blame for fear of brain drain from, immigration to, and gentrification of our cities?
Australia’s Migration Hangover
Migration drives economic growth as the people arriving need places to live. But what happens when the labor force finally flatlines?
Rural China Is Dying
Everybody is leaving the farm for the city as China moves from an agricultural economy to an industrial one.
Creative Class Myths About Talent
Are young, college-educated people attracted to amenities? Or are they attracted to economic opportunity?
Canada Is Dying
Canada's birth rate is so low that it's relying entirely on immigration for any increase in the population, but places and businesses that depend on importing skills will suffer in the new talent production economy.
Hong Kong Is Dying: It Has the Least Affordable Homes in the World
The quality of demographics carries greater weight than the quantity, and the Pearl of the Orient, while dense, is aging rapidly.
No Exodus: Great Recession Migration Mystery
Historically, people in the places hardest hit by recessions pack up and move to greener pastures. But not this time. Why?
The New York Times Is Dying: Brain Drain at the Grey Lady
Hardly. Brain drain is an indicator of success, a sure sign of a talent refinery at work.
Portland Is Dying, Revisited
The City of Roses counts on the young and college educated migrating there. It shouldn't.
Diverging Demography of Baltimore and Africa
Someone tell the mayor of Baltimore that there are more important things to focus on than population growth.