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Jobs is Issue Number One - Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 08:31


Jobs is Issue Number One
Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
On this site, urban scholar Joel Kotkin has more than once talked about the effects on the poor and middle class workers when the hard environmental agenda ...

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Urbanist warfare rages on - Ottawa Citizen

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 21:50


Urbanist warfare rages on
Ottawa Citizen
So the most interesting part of the package is a contrarian essay by Joel Kotkin, in which he questions the tenet of new urbanism that suburbs are bad and ...

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Deadly corruption - Sonoran News

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 15:54


Deadly corruption
Sonoran News
Author and urban development scholar Joel Kotkin spent time in Houston with the Hurricane Katrina evacuees and questioned them if they were bothered by the ...

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America's 21st-Century Business Model - Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:12


America's 21st-Century Business Model
Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
Current attitudes aren't too kind to the old American way of doing business. In our globalized economy, the most enthusiastically touted ...

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Urban Plight: Vanishing Upward Mobility - The American

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 23:57


Urban Plight: Vanishing Upward Mobility
The American
Boosters still maintain that big cities remain unique centers for social uplift, but evidence suggests this is ...

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How to rescue a failing state - Long Beach Press-Telegram

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 19:34


How to rescue a failing state
Long Beach Press-Telegram
The urban scholar Joel Kotkin has written that the spending policies of "progressives" in power in California have led to a flight of the middle class. ...

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Republicans have some eager voters, but Democrats have the big bucks: Joe Frolik - Plain Dealer

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 03:13


Plain Dealer

Republicans have some eager voters, but Democrats have the big bucks: Joe Frolik
Plain Dealer
Urban scholar Joel Kotkin writes on newgeography.com about some of the challenges that China must overcome before it passes the United States to become the ...

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Demographer urges ND to embrace future ethnic diversity - Minot Daily News

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 21:09


Demographer urges ND to embrace future ethnic diversity
Minot Daily News
... North Dakota can take to position itself for the future, said Joel Kotkin, who presented at the Governor's Rural Community Summit in Minot Wednesday. ...

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America's Greece - Winnipeg Free Press

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 01:24


America's Greece
Winnipeg Free Press
Joel Kotkin, writing in the City Journal, described California as engaged in a "war on itself." A political leadership inexorably allied with organized ...

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Low Wages and the Metropolitan Middle Class - Huffington Post (blog)

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 12:03


Low Wages and the Metropolitan Middle Class
Huffington Post (blog)
Joel Kotkin, urban historian and self-appointed defender of the suburbs, holds up Houston as the model middle-class metropolis. "A person or business moving ...

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Joel Kotkin's War on California - City Watch

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 07:13


Joel Kotkin's War on California
City Watch
(Note: Joel Kotkin, in a City Journal piece … “The Golden State's War on Itself” … says that politicians have turned the California dream into a nightmare ...

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Urban Legends: Why Suburbs, Not Dense Cities, are the Future - Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 07:10


Urban Legends: Why Suburbs, Not Dense Cities, are the Future
Fox and Hounds Daily (blog)
The human world is fast becoming an urban world -- and according to many, the faster that happens and the bigger the cities get, ...

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The Morning Dig: Why Dirty Energy Continues to Thrive - The Infrastructurist

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 06:48


The Infrastructurist

The Morning Dig: Why Dirty Energy Continues to Thrive
The Infrastructurist
(FP) • But Joel Kotkin says that suburbs are the answer to the world's problems, not cities. (FP) • India is planning on spending as much as a trillion ...

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Houston Mayor: Failed Immigration Policy Is Responsible For Teen's Murder - Forbes (blog)

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 09:58


Forbes (blog)

Houston Mayor: Failed Immigration Policy Is Responsible For Teen's Murder
Forbes (blog)
For more coverage of immigration policy, check out my article “Labor Pains” on tort lawyers suing companies that hire immigrants. Also see Joel Kotkin's ...

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Joel Kotkin's War on California - California Progress Report

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 07:42


Joel Kotkin's War on California
California Progress Report
Anytime there's an effort to promote progressive, sustainable policies for California's future, Joel Kotkin is right there to argue ...
California needs to revive progressive practicesGlobe and Mail

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Citizenship should be celebrated - Times Daily

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 01:37


Citizenship should be celebrated
Times Daily
In “The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050,” writer Joel Kotkin forecasts a prosperous nation buoyed by immigration. “In advanced countries,” he writes, ...

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The Golden State's War On Itself - National Center for Policy Analysis

Mon, 08/16/2010 - 08:05


The Golden State's War On Itself
National Center for Policy Analysis
Recently, though, the dream has been fading, says Joel Kotkin, a fellow at Chapman University in Orange, California. Between 2003 and 2007, California state ...

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'Cool' cities vs. affordability: Which is more attractive? - Wausau Daily Herald

Sun, 08/15/2010 - 02:30


'Cool' cities vs. affordability: Which is more attractive?
Wausau Daily Herald
Joel Kotkin, an urban development scholar, has been a leading critic of Florida's work. Among other works, he wrote a 2005 essay called "Uncool Cities" ...

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Mackenzie: A random Walk Among Issues in the News - Richmond Times Dispatch

Sat, 08/14/2010 - 21:06


Mackenzie: A random Walk Among Issues in the News
Richmond Times Dispatch
Here's Joel Kotkin of newgeography.com: Recently, the "California dream" for those seeking a better place to live "has been evaporating. ...

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Community development summit scheduled - Minot Daily News

Fri, 08/13/2010 - 21:07


Community development summit scheduled
Minot Daily News
Joel Kotkin, author of "The Next Hundred Million," will provide a keynote address on "Revival of the Great Plains." Koktin's presentation will explore what ...

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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."

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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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