Entries tagged with The Big Sort
Culture as Oxygen
August 1, 2008
Guess where the most satisfied people in all the world’s major cities live?
Would you believe Midwest, USA?
Chicago, to be specific.
It turns out that, according to the world survey of 14 major cities commissioned by Veolia Environnement, Chicagoans are not only the most satisfied…
Bill Bishop on The Daily Show
July 30, 2008
Bill Bishop, who was a featured speaker at our National Meeting in Pittsburgh, was Jon Stewart's guest last night on The Daily Show. Check out the interview about Bill's book, "The Big Sort," below:
Is Urban Sprawl Over
July 14, 2008
Richard Florida insists that high gas prices are not the only thing driving the move back to cities. In today's Globe and Mail, Richard writes that we are moving toward a new geographic order -- what geographers call "the spatial fix."
"Suburbanization was the spatial fix…