Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkinis a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. He writes about demographic, social, and economic trends in the U.S. and internationally. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast and Forbes.com and is on the editorial board of the Orange County Register. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley. A native of New York City, he now lives in Los Angeles...
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Some of those industries have gone away, but some have migrated to other more energetic places. Look at Houston. It was nothing at the start of the 20th century, (but) now it has the port business and the energy industry that used to belong to New Orleans.
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You now have options in suburbia that never existed before. If you're nomadic in the tech world, you're really moving from one suburb to another.
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Calgary is obviously going to keep growing and it should anticipate the challenges the city faces as it grows bigger.
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You have a declining urban core (in Baltimore) and a fairly buoyant state. And that's tough if you're the captain of what can be seen as a sinking ship, ... He's dealt a fairly hard hand.