About this site

Capital Frontiers is an independent publication covering the forces reshaping the world: cities, economies, sports, culture, and the global shifts that connect them all. It is written and edited by Roger Weber.

The premise is simple: the most interesting stories about the future aren't found in daily news cycles. They're found in the long arcs, in the new cities being built from scratch in the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, in the economics behind a baseball stadium, in what demographic collapse means for the Rust Belt, in how China's urban experiment is playing out in real time. Capital Frontiers covers those stories with the analytical depth they deserve.

What we cover

World: Global trajectories from 30,000 feet. Demography, climate, geopolitics, and the macro forces shaping where humanity is headed.

Economics: Markets, capital, and the economic logic underneath the surface of things. Sports through the eyes of an economist. The marketplace of American cities.

Cities: Building the new cities of the future. Urban competitiveness, real estate, planning, and the places the world is betting on next.

Culture: Chronicles of our time. The stories, ideas, and shifts defining how we live.

Sports: The business, politics, and economics of sport. What happens on the field matters less than what happens around it.

New Cities Atlas: A companion publication documenting new cities being built across the world. Explore it here.

About Roger Weber

Roger Weber is a researcher and writer focused on urban capital, emerging economies, and the intersection of finance and place. Capital Frontiers has been his platform for long-form analysis since its original launch, and this is its renewed home.

Subscribe

Capital Frontiers is free to read. Subscribers get new pieces delivered directly to their inbox, with no algorithm, no feed, and no noise. Just the work.

Reach out to us at capitalfrontiers1@gmail.com.