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.
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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.
Why Technology Firms Are Moving Downtown
Young and inexperienced (and cheap) talent has never wanted to live in the suburbs. It's just not cool.
Richard Florida Explains Why Density Doesn’t Impact Innovation
The more parochial a place, the more ineffective the talent.
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.
Urban Minor Leagues of Globalization
Manufacturing used to be concentrated in a few great American cities, but the landscape is changing fast.
Silicon Valley Is Detroit: Are Zoning Laws to Blame?
Peter Thiel is concerned that innovation cannot afford San Francisco or New York City.
Urban Myths of Innovation: Density and Serendipity
In a city, serendipity isn't a given. Two ships may pass in the night and that's it.