Burgh Diaspora

Peter Thiel is concerned that innovation cannot afford San Francisco or New York City.

No, cities are powered by the exploitation of ambition.

Why aren't Google and Twitter welcome in San Francisco?

The term is selectively applied, depending on personal politics, and obscures much more pressing problems.

For a new demographic, the urban zip code has cachet.

Why the loudest anti-gentrification protesters come from the wealthiest areas in the wealthiest countries in the entire world.

The ongoing debates about gentrification boil down to nothing more than one big turf war.

The effects of gentrification in New Orleans.

Investment in any kind of transportation should aid production, not consumption.

Most news coverage in America is focused on L.A., D.C., and New York. Can a new independent radio program change that?

"Manufacturing is no longer just about production. Production is now the core of a much wider set of activities."

What's happening with institutions of higher education and medicine?

Explaining the "curious" population trend in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Are our romantic attachments to place to blame for fear of brain drain from, immigration to, and gentrification of our cities?

Migration drives economic growth as the people arriving need places to live. But what happens when the labor force finally flatlines?

Everybody is leaving the farm for the city as China moves from an agricultural economy to an industrial one.

Are young, college-educated people attracted to amenities? Or are they attracted to economic opportunity?

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.

The quality of demographics carries greater weight than the quantity, and the Pearl of the Orient, while dense, is aging rapidly.

Historically, people in the places hardest hit by recessions pack up and move to greener pastures. But not this time. Why?

Too many communities are dependent on migration for population gains.

Hardly. Brain drain is an indicator of success, a sure sign of a talent refinery at work.

The City of Roses counts on the young and college educated migrating there. It shouldn't.

Someone tell the mayor of Baltimore that there are more important things to focus on than population growth.