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Minnesota Public Radio
Date: 
Friday, March 5, 2010
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Midmorning Show

From the show: "A leading expert on economic and social trends gives us his predictions for what America will look like in 2050. Joel Kotkin expects our cities and suburbs to become more densely populated, and we'll have an advantage over other countries because of our ethnic diversity."

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Submitted by mkp on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 06:12.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank the blogger and this website for giving me information regarding the interview with Joel Kotkin. I have always made it a point to read his books and to listen to his lectures whenever I get time. I certainly agree with the “back to basics" approach of Joel. I certainly feel that scholars like him are the need of the day. I am of the view that a proper implementation of his ideas will go a long way in building up a society based on true love.

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America's Future: The heartland vs the coasts

Kotkin, an urban development scholar at Chapman University in California, says that the old supremacies will wane. "The very high-end urban areas had a real lock on power," said the native New Yorker, who recently authored The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.

Who Will Lead the Recovery? Start With Texas

The debate between Richard Florida and Joel Kotkin on the future of the U.S. economy proves yet again that experts usually have trouble agreeing on anything. But when it comes to predicting what place will lead the country to a solid economic recovery, forecasters are all on the same page: Nobody's messing with Texas.

California muddle: state must change course before it's too late

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.

But, as Kotkin says in an article in the quarterly journal The City...the state must shift its priorities toward the infrastructure that helps sustain the middle class, such as investing in transportation, freeways and movement of goods, since the ports provide 20 percent of the jobs in Southern California.

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"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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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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