Joel Kotkin

We are building cities without thinking about the people who live in them, argues The Human City. It's time to change our approach to one that is centred on human values. In The Human City, internationally recognised urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favours high-density, "pack-and-stack" strategies. By exploring the economic, social, and environmental benefits of decentralised,...

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world,...

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world,...