Joel Kotkin

The decline of the West: America’s Pacific cities face a bleak future

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As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what seemed like an inevitable downturn, the urban agglomerations along the Pacific coast offered a demonstrably brighter urban future. From San Diego to the Puget Sound, urban centres along America’s western edge continued to thrive and expand as migrants from other parts of the country, and the world, crowded in.

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Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin is the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

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