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1. Rustbelt Revivals - fascinating new paper by Enrico Moretti & others (via @lydiadepillis) on why & how deindustrialized Rustbelt regions recover: nber.org/papers/w31948 2. Lots there but here are my main takeaways ... 3. Across the US and Europe more than a third (34%) of deindustrialized Rustbelt metros recovered better than pre-deindustrialization. 4. German metros, and to some extent other European metros recovered more than US metros. 5.
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1. Miami just overtook NY and LA and of course the Bay Area as the nation's most unaffordable housing market. This trend was patently obvious for sometime, and does not bode well for the region or other hot rising centers. therealdeal.com/miami/2022/02/… 2. Miami's housing market has soared driven by an influx of rich, indeed super-rich buyers from NY, LA and other places. Houses are routinely being flipped for multiples of their pre-pandemic values 3.
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1. Much has been made of rising crime and so-called urban disorder in America's cities. But the data is not so clear. While murders are up, overall crime is down. What gives? A new study provides uses intriguing new data to provide some clues. 2. The study by Maxim Massenkoof the Naval Postgraduate School & Aaron Chalfin of the University of Pennsylvania uses data on foot traffic data as well as data from thew American Time Use Survey to measure personal exposure risk to violent crime.
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"1. A few thoughts on cities & economic development in a COVID-19 & Post-COVID-19 world. Much [...]"
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1. Race to the Bottom - That is another possible take/implication of what is happening with the rise of remote work & the geographic shifts being accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic ... One we are not hearing enough about ... 2. I've already written about how the 1% is taking advantage of the pandemic & remote work to shift their residence to avoid state & local taxes ... But maybe there is more to it. 3.
several things strike me. I’ll just state them out here. 2. The first is h…
1. On these end of city takes that seem to endlessly proliferate: several things strike me. I’ll just state them out here. 2. The first is how they always center around just to cities New York City and San Francisco, even as places like LA or Miami or Houston have been very hard hit by COVID-19. 3. The second is how particularly American they are. There is virtually no conversation or sense that Toronto is at dearth’s door. 4.
1. The Great NYC Reset ... 2. I remain fully confident in the wake of all this gloom & doom that NYC will end up just fine down the road…
2. I remain fully confident in the wake of all this gloom & doom that NYC will end up just fine down the road. 3. This is not the 1960s, and it not the end of cities, particularly NYC. 4. That said, I fully expect retail and office, and also parts of the luxury housing sector to be gored. 5. But, please, let's not confused the goring of retail & office and luxury real estate with the end of cities. 6.
1. The Trump administration has decided to declare war on America's cities, inflaming long-standing divides of race & class. @threadread…
1. Been thinking a lot about the argument that we should leave pandemic "planning" to medical professionals, epidemiologists & public health experts. Everyone else, all of us actually, should stay in our respective "silos." The more I think about it, the more I think it is wrong. 2. Here's why. Pandemics have broad implications and not just for health generally (avoided doctor visits, surgeries) and mental health, but also for the economy, cities, social cohesion, politics ... and many more. 3.
1.Quick thread on my @WSJ oped with @jselingo on the what the Covid-19 crisis means for urban universities & cities: wsj.com/articles/a-…
1.Quick thread on my @WSJ oped with @jselingo on the what the Covid-19 crisis means for urban universities & cities: wsj.com/articles/a-cri… 2. The revival of urban universities like NYU, USC, Penn & others was crucial to the broader urban revival. 3. In fact, I have long believed it is universities & surrounding districts, not just proximity to the central business district, that have been prime factors in gentrification. 4.
1. Been thinking about the geography of innovation in light of #coronavirus. 2. Initially, I thought perhaps it might reinforce or further s…
1. Been thinking about the geography of innovation in light of #coronavirus. https://twitter.com/MarkMuro1/status/1237022467610357762 2. Initially, I thought perhaps it might reinforce or further spur decentralization & declustering, at least at the margin. Now I think it might cut both ways. 3. On the one hand, I think the response from companies is to encourage more people to work from home remotely. And this could in turn spur some employees to relocate to more affordable locations. 4.
The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited
A new economic and social order is a double-edged sword: it unleashes incredible energies, but it also causes tremendous hardships. The following is an abridged version of the preface to The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited, out this month from Basic Books. It’s been ten years since I published – and a bit longer than that since I wrote – . It would be an understatement to say that a lot has changed since then.
What Your Personality Has to Do With Your Neighborhood
Flickr/Donna Rutherford Extroverts are more likely to be drawn to a city's center, for example. It’s a well-worn sociological truth that the neighborhoods in which we live can have a powerful effect on our lives. But how do our neighborhoods affect our overall happiness and well being? And what might they reflect about our underlying personalities?
1. Important must-read piece by @AnnieLowrey on America's ongoing economic dilemma. I'd like to use as jumping off point to provide some mor…
1. Important must-read piece by @AnnieLowrey on America's ongoing economic dilemma. I'd like to use as jumping off point to provide some more context on the longer-run economic trajectory. https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1212041765559115776 @AnnieLowrey 2. My take is that what the US economy & society is going through is a very long-run - some might say long-wave - kind of economic transformation, signaled by the Great Crash of 2008. @AnnieLowrey 3.
How a Just Society Could Better Reward Productivity
A line worker installs the back seats on the flex line at Nissan Motor Co's automobile manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, August, 2018. William DeShazer/Reuters In this second part of an interview with economist Jonathan Rothwell, he explains that a just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally. This is the second segment of a two-part Q&A with economist Jonathan Rothwell. Read the first part here.
How Valuing Productivity, Not Profession, Could Reduce U.S. Inequality
In this second part of an interview with economist Jonathan Rothwell, he explains that a just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally. This is the second segment of a two-part Q&A with economist Jonathan Rothwell. Read the first part here. In his new book A Republic of Equals, Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell traces the forces driving the dramatic rise in inequality in the United States.
How Elite Professions Create Inequality
Patrice A. Harris, president of the American Medical Association, addresses a meeting. For many years, Jonathan Rothwell says, blacks were excluded from professional organizations for occupations thought to be intellectually demanding and thus, high-status, like medicine. Paul Morigi/AP Images for The Black Women's Agenda, Inc. In this interview with Jonathan Rothwell about his new book, A Republic of Equals, he explains how U.S. racism helped create elite, highly paid professions.
Racism Is at the Heart of the High Pay for Doctors in the U.S.
Patrice A. Harris, president of the American Medical Association, addresses a meeting. For many years, Jonathan Rothwell says, blacks were excluded from professional organizations for occupations thought to be intellectually demanding and thus, high-status, like medicine. Paul Morigi/AP Images for The Black Women's Agenda, Inc. In this interview with Jonathan Rothwell about his new book, A Republic of Equals, he explains how U.S. racism helped create elite, highly paid professions.
How Elite Professions Create Inequality
In this interview with Jonathan Rothwell about his new book, A Republic of Equals, he explains how U.S. racism helped create elite, highly paid professions. This is the first part of a two-part Q&A with economist Jonathan Rothwell. Read the second part next week. Inequality and low productivity growth are two of the biggest problems that vex the U.S. economy.
The Link Between Ride-Hailing and Binge Drinking
Ievgenii Meyer/Shutterstock New research suggests that ride-hailing is associated with increases in drinking behaviors in U.S. cities and metro areas. If I am going out and plan to have just one drink, I’ll call an Uber. And that’s a good thing: Drunk driving is a public-health crisis, killing more than 10,000 people a year. One advantage of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft is that, according to a number of studies, they reduce drunk driving.
Has the Rise of Uber Led to More Heavy Drinking?
New research suggests that ride-hailing is associated with increases in drinking behaviors in U.S. cities and metro areas. If I am going out and plan to have just one drink, I’ll call an Uber. And that’s a good thing: Drunk driving is a public-health crisis, killing more than 10,000 people a year. One advantage of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft is that, according to a number of studies, they reduce drunk driving. But there’s another connection between ride-hailing and alcohol.
Which Cities Have a Wide Range of Tech Startups?
Attendees at Austin Startup Week in Austin, Texas, September 2019. Drew Anthony Smith/AP Images for Booz Allen Hamilton Just four coastal areas of the country dominate on the Startup Complexity Index, a new measure developed by researchers at the Brookings Institution. Growing regional inequality is one of the most serious problems affecting America today.
Four Coastal Areas Dominate a New Measure of Tech-Company Startup Diversity
Just four coastal areas of the country dominate on the Startup Complexity Index, a new measure developed by researchers at the Brookings Institution. Growing regional inequality is one of the most serious problems affecting America today. Perhaps the most pointed example of this worsening winner-take-all geography is the extraordinary concentration of high-tech startups in just a handful of cities and metro regions across the country.
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