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Brain Drain or ‘Outward Mobility’?
Call it whatever you like, but it's actually good for economic development. People in certain places, like the U.K. and Brazil, understand this.
Demographic Deception
How mesofacts, or facts that change slowly, influence what we think about urban policy and talent migration.
Diversity Cult
Ethnic and racial diversity locked up in poor neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side does little good for the regional economy. So why do many blindly associate ethnic diversity with economic development?
Fatal Talent Attraction
Top-tier research universities matter more than a vibrant urban core as focus shifts from talent attraction (too much competition) to talent production.
Geography of Aspiration
Try to replicate it with development schemes all you want, but you're overlooking what makes New York City—and other places of ambition—so great.
Era of Dying Places
For many, population is the only metric that matters. But what does it mean when a city's population is declining while its workforce is growing—in both size and smarts?
Portland Is Dying
The City of Roses was a darling of the pre-recession economy, but things are changing and the creative class has more options than ever before.
Shrinking City Myths
Rust Belt population woes tend to be a lack of inmigration, not outmigration and brain drain as is commonly assumed.
Restaurant Talent Migration
Return migration—native sons and daughters coming home after cutting their teeth in a Big City—is responsible for a burgeoning world-class restaurant culture in previously forgotten or ignored locations.