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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Observercast

The Urban Future

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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 […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.