Which African cities will be the largest in the year 2100?
By Capital Frontiers The scale of urbanization that will happen in Africa over the next 80 years is staggering. While Africa today has...
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Welcome to the Nigerian Century
By Roger Weber Politically and culturally, the American zeitgeist around international trends is largely fixated on the growing economies...
Pete Rose, Cincinnati Antihero
By Capital Frontiers Of all the colorful figures in the history of baseball, few are as complicated as Pete Rose. On the one hand,...
In the Country that Outlawed Cities, a Metropolis Gets Ready to Roar
By Capital Frontiers Most people have never heard of Dar es Salaam, which isn't surprising. It’s the 116th largest city in the world and...
Can the Akron Rubber Ducks Swim with Ohio's Best Minor League Baseball Franchises?
The Midwest is full of great minor league baseball and excellent ballpark experiences. Some, like Dayton and Toledo, are beacons of...
Why Are Hotels Cozying Up to Major League Ballparks?
By Roger Weber Take me out to the ballgame…and let’s stay the night. So is the new mantra of Major League Baseball. After a period...
Can China’s Great Green Wall Create Rich Red Wine?
By Roger Weber In 2021, the Chinese-Mongolian border saw its worst dust storms in years, bringing dust pollution 20 times healthy levels....
What's it Like Having One of the World's Best Memories?
By Roger Weber First, some elephants… For miles and miles, Mirasa trudged on tired knees willing her family of elephants across a barren...
Is St. Louis America's Greatest City?
Months ago we published the results from a study we conducted trying to find the “unicorn city”: the city that best balances attributes...
In Search of Baseball's One-Eyed Wonder
One of the most beautiful things about baseball is that so many of its players don’t “look” like athletes. You can succeed as a baseball...
Will the Anti-Workers of the World Unite to Invent a Better Tomorrow?
Much of the country reacted with curious disbelief in 2021 when numerous media outlets – from Business Insider...
What is New Housing Like in China?
By Roger Weber Previously, we published a piece on Capital Frontiers that explored the affordability of housing in China. In it, we...
How Expensive is Housing in China?
By Roger Weber Imagine working your entire adult life, each month stashing away half your income to save up for a new house, and by the...
Why did Intel Pick Ohio to Build One of the World's Largest Semiconductor Factories?
It’s hardly news to the residents of central Ohio, where it has been splashed across the front pages for weeks, but Intel recently...
In MLBPA Lockout, Who's Advocating for the Fans?
Major League Baseball players earn an average of $4.2 million dollars per year, while team owners covet $2 billion valuations of their...
Sportswriters Just Killed the Baseball Hall of Fame
Sportswriters, the great moral arbiters of our time, have rendered their final verdict. No to Barry Bonds. No to Roger Clemens. Yes to...
The Global Population is About to Collapse
One of the most hyperbolic, over-reactionary, and ultimately wrong fixations of the last several decades has been the academic...
Africa's Big Moment: Could a Conflux of Oil and Water Ignite the Economies of Botswana and Namibia?
By Roger Weber Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are...
Saving Generation Z from the Social Media Zombie Apocalypse
By Roger Weber Poor generation Z. Amid a time of cultural tumult, today’s teens, inheritors of our future challenges, are ever our...
What is the Metaverse?
By Roger Weber Are you a person living in a physical world? Or is your body merely an avatar navigating an artificial digital world...
How Did Florence Grow? 9 Lessons for New and Existing Cities
By Roger Weber Headquarters of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy is one of the most important and misunderstood cities ever built. While...
What are the biggest challenges for NEOM, the Saudi Arabian Megacity?
We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched...
