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19th Annual RMLUI Land Use Conference
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
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University of Denver, Denver, CO Now Available: The Next Hundred Million
Joel's new book, THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION: America in 2050 is now available at booksellers everywhere.
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Joel on Reason.tv
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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.
Listen to Joel on ABC Radio National, Australia
Over half the world's population now lives in cities, but is high-density living really how most people want to live?
Where We Live: Cities And The People Who Plan Them
Listen to Joel discuss city models for the future. Joel joins the conversation approximately 38 minutes into the show.
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Also by Joel Kotkin: The City: A Global History
The Next Hundred Million
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."
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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