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Nearly two decades removed from the Great Recession and five years on from the global pandemic, America is gaining perspective on the impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban planning profession, where we’ve gotten a reality check about rhetoric which once predicted the birth of a new
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In 2021, the Chinese-Mongolian border saw its worst dust storms in years, bringing dust pollution 20 times healthy levels. Swirling gusts of sand created skies so thick it appeared to be night at high noon. Air conditioners choked. And those who dared step foot outside found their shoes filled
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Poor generation Z. Amid a time of cultural tumult, unprecedented social media and scars from the pandemic, one of the more battered generations in recent memory are the inheritors of our future challenges. They are also ever our cultural curiosity. Every few days another article lending another attempt at cultural
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It’s hardly news to the residents of central Ohio, where it has been splashed across the front pages for weeks, but Intel recently selected the city of New Albany, Ohio as its selected future home for a new $20 billion semiconductor chip factory, an investment Intel has framed as
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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
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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
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,
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
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Although cities notoriously lean left in America, with Republican voter concentrations predominating in more rural and suburban locales, a few cities match their cosmopolitan qualities with conservative values. Based on Presidential Election data, below is a ranking of the only major cities in America in which the county containing the