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Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)

All in all, technology doesn’t make jobs irrelevant—far from it, as suggested by the uninterrupted growth of proximity services in expanding urban areas.

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

For most of the 2020s, the driving economic force will be low growth in productivity, decreased opportunities for investment of accumulated capital, and low interest rates. It will also be a period of increasing unemployment, driven by continued decline in industry and stagnation in high tech as the result of the maturation of the core technology.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

As a general rule of human civilization, we’ve lived where we work. More than 90 percent of Americans drive to work, and their average commute is about 27 minutes. This tether between home and office is the basis of urban economics. But remote work weakens it; in many cases, it severs the link entirely, replacing spatial proximity with cloud-based... See more

Derek Thompson • Superstar Cities Are in Trouble

America Is Headed Toward Collapse

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Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff

Today, the term supercommuting is often used to describe the punishment inflicted on lower-income workers who have to live far from their job because of the scarcity of affordable housing. But the remote-work revolution could spawn the rise of something a little different: the affluent supercommuter who chooses to move to a big exurban house with... See more

Derek Thompson • Superstar Cities Are in Trouble

Over the past twenty years, there has been a push for zoning reforms in urban and suburban areas. Inner-city economies have shifted from a basis on manufacturing to service and consumption. Downtowns are now hubs for entertainment and commerce and are increasingly also being seen as destinations for living. A new generation of people—empty nesters

John MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning

Alain Bertaud of @NYUMarron joins @MarkLutter for episode three of the Charter Cities Podcast to talk about cities as labor markets, Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses, Haussmann's impact on Paris, and much more. Enjoy! https://t.co/ofkA1YvWKu

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