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Throwing The Poor Out of Suburbs
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:40amMuch has been written about gentrification and about the specter of poor people being displaced from cities- despite the fact that nearly every central city still has higher poverty rates than most of its suburbs.
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Not A "War on Suburbia" Election
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11:42amAccording to Joel Kotkin, this month's elections were really about the "progressives' war on suburbia." According to Kotkin, the Democrats lost because they are "aggressively anti-suburban." Since I didn't vote for President Obama, I leave it to his supporters to defend him.
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What Ferguson Tells Us About Working-Class Suburbia
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 10:07pmRecently, Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, has received lots of attention because of a police officer's questionable decision to shoot an unarmed civilian, followed by demonstrations, followed by some even more questionable decisions by police (such as arresting journalists and tear-gassing the... read more »
New York's problem (or more broadly, the problem of medium density)
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 11:37amAfter reading yet another blog post talking about how New York is losing migrants to other cities, I had an extremely insightful date. My date was with a woman who lived in Flatbush, at the outer, more car-oriented edge of Brooklyn. She drives everywhere. When I told her about my y... read more »
Religion and urbanism
Submitted by MLewyn on Mon, 02/24/2014 - 12:51pm(Cross-posted, with some additions, from my personal blog).
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Some Cities Have More Children Than Their Suburbs
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 4:51pmToday, I read a blog post by Joel Kotkin asserting, for the umpteeth time, that famlies with children prefer suburbs. But at the bottom of the post is a chart comparing the child population (as a percentage of total population) for dozens of cities and their suburbs.
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More Evidence That There Are Still Poor People In Cities (Or, I Told You So)
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 01/07/2014 - 12:31pmIn numerous blog posts (most extensively here) I have pointed out that despite the enormous amount of writing about suburban poverty and urban gentrification, cities still have a disproportionate share of regional poverty.
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Cities Don't Always Have Higher Taxes Than Suburbs
Submitted by MLewyn on Sat, 12/07/2013 - 7:46pmThe Brookings Institution just came out with a national map listing property taxes by county.
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Reality Check on Urban Poverty
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 09/25/2013 - 8:48amI've read some stories suggesting that poverty is decreasing in cities and increasing in suburbs. Urbanists see this alleged trend as evidence that cities are becoming more popular; egalitarians see it as evidence that gentrification is driving the poor into suburbia.
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