As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about fluid labor markets and urban density, I thought I would present an opposing view. Joel Kotkin is a well known geographer and author. He has published a number of books, the most recent of which is called, The… Read More
Aaron Renn has a few observations up on his blog from a recent trip to San Francisco. Number 2 is as follows: “A curiously low energy city. It’s tough to judge any American city’s street energy after living in New York, but San Francisco felt basically dead.… Read More
The truism is that both people and companies are moving back to downtowns. We are living in an urban era. But when you really look at the data, it is clear that the suburbs are far from dead. And when it comes to companies, the way… Read More
Blogger and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Aaron M. Renn, recently published an interesting long-form article called, Rethinking America’s Cities’ Success Strategy. One of the central themes is the idea that globalization has caused a kind of bifurcation in cities –… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js I was reading Aaron Renn’s blog this morning and a post called, How Urban Planning Made Motown Records Possible, caught my attention. His argument – taken from a book called Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story – is that the prevalence of pianos in… Read More
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research has just published a free book called, The Next Urban Renaissance: How Public-Policy Innovation and Evaluation Can Improve Life in America’s Cities. Here’s an excerpt from the foreword: This collection of essays brings together the best ideas from scholars… Read More
I’m back and it feels great. I missed blogging the past 2 days. Though, there was something nice about not touching a computer all weekend. This morning I got up extra early and listened to a brief conversation between Aaron M. Renn of The Urbanophile… Read More
Urbanist Aaron Renn recently published an interesting article in City Journal called “Libertarians of Convenience”. It talks about how today’s urban progressives are selectively favoring deregulation for the things that only matter to them – everything from urban housing to food trucks. Here’s a snippet: But… Read More
Aaron M. Renn of The Urbanophile, recently wrote an interesting article in Governing called, Where’s America’s Entrepreneurial Economy? In it, he argues that despite the fact that there’s a perception that entrepreneurship is on the rise, overall rates are actually declining. The Brookings Institution found… Read More
Last year I wrote a post called Province of Toronto, where I briefly talked about the outdated nature of how cities are organized and governed in Canada. I was effectively arguing that, in today’s global economy, our dominate economic unit needs to be the city–not… Read More
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