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Legacy Economy: Pittsburgh Steel Crazy After All These Years
Pittsburgh was steel. Pittsburgh is steel. The Rust Belt brand bruising the civic ego: There are still some who assume Pittsburgh is a steel city, even though that has not been the case for many years....
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U.S. Geography of News Stories
How places are portrayed in the news impacts talent migration. Michigan has many openings for engineers. But Michigan is Detroit, a bankrupt basket case. Business Leaders for Michigan (BLM) attempting...
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Transit Oriented Boondoggle: The Problem With Detroit's Streetcar System
I had no idea what the term "transit oriented development" meant. The mayor and the city council members asked me a number of questions about urban planning and zoning. I fumbled T.O.D. I did well...
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YURPs, Burps, and Globalizing Big Easy
Say goodbye to authentic New Orleans. Gentrification on a national scale is rapidly remaking the landscape. The influx from America's urban alpha dogs: "You trying to run us out of New Orleans," she...
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Identity: State of Mind or State of Place?
A young couple, both 3rd generation Vermonters living on the right side of the Connecticut River, celebrate their first born in a hospital on the wrong side of the river in New Hampshire. The prodigal...
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New York City's Perpetual Gentrification
"L.A. flushes out at least a third of its population each decade, becoming an entirely new city in each generation." Journalist Doug Saunders wrote that in Arrival City, describing how people move...
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Why Is Gentrification Such a Hot Topic?
If gentrification is old news, then why the fuss? For a new demographic, the urban zip code has cachet. The aspirational geography in yesterday's post about perpetual gentrification: Even in the...
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Ireland: Gentrification of a Nation
Functionally, the exodus from Ireland and the gentrification of San Francisco are the same problem. Residents can't afford to stay put. The government encourages the economically struggling to leave...
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The Geography of Anti-Gentrification: Google Buses and the World Trade Center
The day after the 9/11 attacks, I had an opportunity to teach 250 students how geography could help make sense of the tragedy. Putting aside the whodunit, I asked my audience to think through the why...
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Creative Urban Spaces Don't Promote Innovation
Yesterday, I took umbrage at the assertion that the consumer city is good urban planning. The controversy has little to do with urbanism and place-making. Industry competes with "public" amenities for...
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Silicon Valley Is Detroit: Are Zoning Laws to Blame?
Detroit was yesterday's Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is well on its way to becoming tomorrow's Detroit. Peter Thiel sounds the alarm to the Wall Street Journal: WSJ: What's holding back entrepreneurs...
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Australia’s commodities boom has gone bust. But what a ride it has been. All the activity fueled another boom, international migration: [Adelaide University demographer Professor Graeme Hugo] says...
View ArticleImmigration and Gentrification
Anxiety about brain drain, gentrification, and immigration are all cut from the same cloth. For the jihad against brain drain, local talent is better than talent groomed elsewhere. For the protesters...
View ArticleIt’s the Birth Rate, Stupid
Go ahead and blame Bigfoot. The land of the Yooper is home to a mystery. “Is it mining? Timber? Weather? Upper Peninsula population trend puzzles“: A curious, century-old population trend in Michigan’s...
View ArticleEconomic Geography of Eds and Meds
Eds and meds are dying. That’s bad news for Rust Belt cities such as Pittsburgh, where hospitals and universities support much of the regional job growth. Recently, Richard Florida walked a fine line...
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