Joel Kotkin: All Content

Financing the Productive Economy

A National Policy Forum on the Economy, the Housing Bubble and What to Do about Recessionary Fears

Do Well-Intended Programs Suffer During Tough Times?

10 Questions: City Life

From L.A., a Reinvention of Big Labor

The New Influence Brokers in American Politics

A Bright Light For Downtown; Developer Will Mix Homes And Shops In Riverside

Billionaire Eli Broad Wants Nothing less than to Remake his Adopted City

Message: Cities Shouldn't Brush off Working Class

Joel Kotkin Urges Economic Officials to make Hampton Roads a Place where People "Believe their Life will be Better."

Three-Nation Strategy Would Balance Needs, Ecology

Governor Faces Big Hurdles to Ambitious Agenda; Voters, Democrats, even His Own GOP could be Obstacles

Neighbors Worry about Cost of Revitalization

A Challenging Year for Mayor

L.A. Mayor Challenges Grow

On Architecture: The Suburbs Don't Have to be Boring

NBC's Tim Russert Spotlights WSJ Piece Explaining California's Growing Independence

Virginia Town on Slow City Pace Before Movement Began

The Great Plains Revival

Heartland Poised for Entrepreneurial Growth

Focus on the Border, Other Issues to Grow

New O.J. Simpson Book Revives Old Debate

The Signs of Poverty are Everywhere in Long Beach, If You Care to Look

Duluth’s Assets Could Help City Flourish

F-M May be Key for Jobs, Growth

Bond Underfunded, Wasted on Inefficient Projects

Confronting America's Growth Challenges and Developing the Heartland

A Heartland Development Strategy

Republican Support for Israel Has Left Many Voters Wondering How to Cast Their Ballots.

Piemonte Could Recast City's Identity

USC Seeks Downtown Admission

How America Grows: A Tale of Two Cities

The Housing Market is Riddled With Speculation

500,000 Haven't Gone Home

Don't Feed the White Elephant

The Best Cities for Doing Business

It Thrived in the 1970s, Will Adapt to Latest Spike

The Boston Globe Quotes Joel Kotkin on ''Ephemeral Cities' and Middle-Class Family Flight

A Heartland Development Strategy

Welcome, comrades, to Moscow on the Pacific

<p><b>Portland: lost in its own reflection As self-congratulatory young creatives move in and families and jobs for the working and middle class stream out, Stumptown is becoming an Ephemeral City that mostly exists to celebrate itself</p></b>

But even the Romans knew: It can be nice to get out of the city

Traditional Progressivism Offers Enormous Promise

The Aftermath: Can New Orleans Recover as S.F. has? City by the bay has two models of resurrection

Rebuilt city to offer path from poverty

A Great American City Like New Orleans Deserved Better -- And Still Does

Forget crawfish etouffee--look to ugly Houston for a vibrant economic model.

Unless it keeps its citizens safe, the modern metropolis may go the way of ancient Rome

<p>Around the globe, wealth used to be associated with centralization. No more.</p>

The Next Centers of Our Information Economy May Surprise You

From older communities to brand-new towns, it takes a village to make suburbia work.

Cities Aren't Doing As Well As You Think