Michael Hendrix

We are at the dawn of the urban century. More Americans are living in cities than ever before. And yet, while…

We are witnessing the rise of networked tribal politics and the fall of traditional institutional systems. In…

Food trucks should be seen as additive, not subtractive from public life and private flourishing. With a bett…

The state of American entrepreneurship is improving, but worries remain over increasingly divided fortunes, a…

Conflicts arise in business as in every corner of human existence. When they do, rules and norms rush in. Jus…

Whole Foods and Cracker Barrel are effective shorthand for America’s remarkable differences in voting prefere…

Gentrification is not a cut and dry matter of displacement. It is also about the changes in and fracturing of…

Roughly 10 million American men are "missing" from the workforce. They are in the prime of their careers from…

Who gives and gives well? Sociologists Patricia Snell Herzog and Heather E. Price lend their book American Ge…

If you want to know what a successful startup ecosystem looks like, think of it as a roundtable meeting. In e…

Armstrong’s ambition was to build a business passing on her inherited love for braiding, and so she did. Unti…

Prioritizing social networks and social capital suggests a policy of people over place. Growing startup ecosy…

"Without geography, you're nowhere," goes the old saw. For startup hubs, this observation may be more true th…

Every city should be asking itself: Are we prepared for the next generation of technological growth?

Neither the suburb nor the city are entirely states of nature. They are the product of conscious choices. The…

We are at the dawn of an extraordinary technological revolution and it is transforming every part of the U.S.…

To thrive in the transition to a digital economy, cities need to develop the right types of knowledge and kno…

What will it take for our nation’s cities to drive more startup activity that can transform the industries th…

We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes - Detroit's motto. Detroit can sometimes feel like a …

What are the challenges facing San Francisco and Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem? Together with 1776, DC's…

Local Austin entrepreneurs see themselves as being just at the beginning stages of making their city a tech h…

Do you live an apartment building? How well do you know your neighbors? Have you ever thought about how easy …

It’s all about that open data. Cities are sitting on a huge store of information. The question is, What are t…

Austin is weird. And I mean that in the best way.