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Tech titans are the new masters of the universe, be afraid - Press TV 10 hours 31 min old
Poverty moves to the suburbs - Grist 1 day 11 hours old
Obama's War on the Middle Class - FrontPage Magazine 2 days 13 min old
Mayor Who? - Artvoice 2 days 13 hours old
Poverty is growing twice as fast in the suburbs as in cities - Washington Post (blog) 2 days 14 hours old
Tech Titans Are the New Masters of the Universe, Be Afraid: Kotkin - Yahoo! Finance (blog) 2 days 16 hours old
Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots? - The Economist (blog) 3 days 14 hours old
Urban Poverty and Suburban Poverty - National Review Online (blog) 4 days 13 hours old
The Slumburbia Myth - Daily Beast 4 days 20 hours old
The Undocumented: Why Do They Still Come? - City Watch 4 days 23 hours old
With Production Dropping, Why Are the Film Studios Expanding? - Curbed LA 5 days 2 hours old
The Kansas City Star - Kansas City Star 5 days 10 hours old
Why childless people are persecuted - Globe and Mail 1 week 15 hours old
Changing class in America - Business Standard 1 week 1 day old
Technology gurus game the system, at your expense - Albany Times Union (blog) 1 week 1 day old

Texas Suburbs Lead Population Growth 23 hours 33 min old
The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs 2 days 1 hour old
Visions of the Rust Belt Future (Part 2) 2 days 23 hours old
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline 4 days 12 hours old
Rust Belt: Can Micro-Suburbs Stay Independent? 4 days 15 hours old
Religious Freedom Lures Many to U.S. from Asia 5 days 23 hours old
The Evolving Urban Form: Toronto 1 week 23 hours old
America’s Off-The-Radar Tech Hubs 1 week 1 day old
America's New Manufacturing Boomtowns 1 week 3 days old
America’s New Oligarchs—Fwd.us and Silicon Valley’s Shady 1 Percenters 1 week 4 days old
Why Gentrification? 1 week 4 days old
Housing Market Fringe Movement 1 week 5 days old
Slow the Presses! 2 weeks 23 hours old
The Average Manufacturing Establishment Is Smaller Than You Think, and Getting Smaller 2 weeks 1 day old
The Cleveland Miracle That Should Never Have Been 2 weeks 3 days old

Enterprising States 2013: Getting Down to Small Business ... 3 weeks 3 days old
Megacities And The Density Delusion: Why More ... - Joel Kotkin 3 weeks 4 days old
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Five Tuesday Links In The Current Political Landscape | Chris Navin 3 weeks 4 days old
Class Warfare for Republicans | Joel Kotkin 3 weeks 5 days old
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Minorities Lose Their Shirts under Obama | Via Meadia 3 weeks 5 days old
SWAC Girl: Jeb Bush: 'Conservatives are winning ... in the states' 3 weeks 5 days old
Republicans' Class Warfare Opportunity - RealClear Politics 3 weeks 5 days old
College: What's the Point? | Via Meadia - The American Interest 4 weeks 10 hours old
Visions of the Rust Belt Future (Part 1) | Newgeography.com 4 weeks 23 hours old
OUR VIETNAMESE HEARTS | Defend the Defenders 4 weeks 1 day old
Morningside to Become Miami's Next Gated Community? | Transit ... 7 weeks 5 days old

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Kansas City promotes itself as good home for tech entrepreneurs and start-up companies

“My gut feel is that the opportunities are going to be in technology connected to something real,” said Joel Kotkin, a California-based expert on economic trends.

“Most social media firms will go out of business, get merged or become oligarchies.… It would seem to me, if you had something embedded in your basic strengths it would be a lot more persuasive.

Joel Talks with California Public Radio About the Tech Economy's New Oligarchs

Joel recently appeared on KPCC's Take Two show to talk about the impact of the concentration of political power and influence in the tech industry and the impact of these companies on the economy and middle class workers.

Visit the KPCC website to listen to the 7 minute segment.

CA vs. The Suburbs: Planners, Smart Growth, and the Manhattan Delusion

Joel was recently featured in this short video piece about central planning in Los Angeles and its impact on local neighborhoods. Watch the video below.

Historic honor: Prominent writer touts Houston as the next wave of great American Cities

Have a problem with Houston's notorious suburban sprawl? Better get used to it — this is type of urban development is the future.

So says demographer Joel Kotkin in a recent piece on The Daily Beast, in which he explains that "low-density, car-dominated, heavily suburbanized areas with small central cores likely represent the next wave of great American cities" — pointing to Houston as a prime example.

'Coolest' is no model

A piece this week by Joel Kotkin, long a critic of the "hip city" phenomenon and a defender of suburbs and blue collar jobs, on the "Daily Beast" web site assembles some of the evidence, anecdotal and factual.

"Investments in 'cool' districts may well appeal to some young professionals, particularly before they get married and have children," he writes. "But overall ... it has done little overall for the urban middle class, much less the working class or the poor."

Interview on Smartplanet.com

"Greenurbia is the suburbs of the future. The suburbs of the 1950s were bedroom communities for people who commuted into the city. Today, there’s much more employment in the suburbs, and the big change is the number of people working full-time or part-time at home. Having people commute from one computer screen to another doesn’t make sense."

Read the full interview...

Praise for The Next Hundred Million

Kotkin has a striking ability to envision how global forces will shape daily family life, and his conclusions can be thought-provoking as well as counterintuitive. It's amazing there isn't more public discussion about the enormous changes ahead, and reassuring to have this talented thinker on the case. — Jennifer Ludden, NPR national desk correspondent

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Kansas City promotes itself as good home for tech entrepreneurs and start-up companies

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CA vs. The Suburbs: Planners, Smart Growth, and the Manhattan Delusion

Historic honor: Prominent writer touts Houston as the next wave of great American Cities

'Coolest' is no model

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