BY FROMA HARROP Sunbelt-and-sprawl advocate Joel Kotkin wrote two years ago that the future of American urbanism wasn’t in the “elite cities,” such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but in “younger, more affordable and less self-regarding places.” He named [his order] Houston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas and Riverside, CA. Boom-city boosters like Kotkin play a numbers game, where the place with the biggest population explosion wins. This is also a […]
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