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One of the most popular terms in planning is “automobile dependence”. The premise asserts that most people in most places in the United states are involuntarily dependent on their cars, with no other option, and that in an ideal world, in which everyone would be happier and more productive, people
Africa
Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are positioned to benefit from it. Could it catalyze a future greater than even they yet realize? Capital Frontiers investigates. The Lightning in a Bottle Equation It is among
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The scale of urbanization that will happen in Africa over the next 80 years is staggering. While Africa today has only a few megacities, its massive young population and high birth rates are projected to cause an explosion in the size of its cities that by the year 2100 will
Baseball
The Midwest is full of great minor league baseball and excellent ballpark experiences. Some, like Dayton and Toledo, are beacons of excellence in classy minor league team management from top to bottom. Others are a work in progress. But none I’ve attended recently left me scratching my head with
Baseball
Take me out to the ballgame…and let’s stay the night. So is the new mantra of Major League Baseball. After a period between 1991 and the mid-2010s that saw nearly every Major League team build a new stadium, the pace of ballpark construction over the last five
Culture
Much of the country reacted with curious disbelief in 2021 when numerous media outlets – from Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-american-dream-changed-unraveled-housing-labor-supply-chain-shortage-2021-11) to The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/dont-rant-about-short-staffed-
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Has the baseball Hall of Fame transitioned from being a museum celebrating the history of the greatest players and feats in baseball to being a museum merely celebrating the favorite players of an egotistical media? It's a leading question, I know. The failure to induct the greatest and
Demographics
For most of the last hundred years, the dominant fear in academic and policy circles has been that the world was growing too fast. Too many people, too many mouths, too much consumption, and not enough resources to sustain it all. From the Club of Rome to The Population Bomb,
America
In all formal channels of society, it seems that the glorification of athletes, celebrities, and musicians is on the rise. Media nearly across the board have sympathized with Players Unions in disputes with team ownership at all levels of professional sports, regardless of the issue. They’ve pushed for college
Cities
We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched in 2017 in the country’s northwest corner by Jordan, a priority project of the Crown Prince with the objective to create an unparalleled and unprecedented reinvention
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When the ownership of the Cleveland Indians decided to change the team’s name a few years ago, the opportunity presented them a generational opportunity to rebrand not only the Cleveland Baseball Team but, in some ways, the entire city of Cleveland, for the next century. With the recent announcement
America
Here is a breakdown of how we spend the Federal Budget ($4.5 trillion circa 2020). This budget amounts to around 21.6% of our national GDP. Entitlements (~57%) · Social Security: $1 trillion · Medicate, Medicaid, CHIP, and marketplace subsidies: $1 trillion · Other safety net programs: $361 billion Defense (~17%) · Defense: