Bright Flight From Silicon Valley
Talented people are starting to move to places where the cost of living is more reasonable, but a town can't just be cheap and wonderful. It also has to be connected.
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The Best Kind of Geography Is Beer Geography
University of Kentucky geographers used millions of geotagged tweets to produce fascinating beer maps of the United States.
Silicon Rust
Silicon Shore. Silicon Beach. Silicon Roundabout. How many different technology hubs can we have? Like the untethering of manufacturing from regional natural resources that crushed the Rust Belt, Silicon Valley's one-time advantage of a high concentration of venture capitalists matters less and less as the cost of technology falls.
Geography of the Legacy Economy: Mapping the Next Boom
With real estate markets tapped out in primary markets, investors will look to secondary ones—Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Phoenix—with legacy assets.
Warm Januaries and Cold Julys: Climate Doesn’t Affect Human Migration Patterns
When it comes to migration, it's all about economics and proximity.
Atlanta Is Dying: Young, Smart People Are Fleeing Georgia’s Capital City
Why can't The ATL keep more than 50 percent of Georgia Tech’s graduates? It's about aspiration, not place-failure.
Guerrilla Geographies of Artisanal Toast
How the affliction for hand-crafted confection gentrifies industrial space in the Bay Area.
Geography of Innovation: Why Nashville Is Music City
Quality of interaction trumps density of interaction any day, and the Tennessee capital has a critical mass of talent from all over the world.
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial City
As long as talented people born in different places are coming together, even the Orkney Islands can be an innovation hub.
Rust Belt Geography and Awful Journalism
The dominant view of dying cities is outdated and wrong, and journalists are largely responsible for the geographic misconceptions.