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Joel Kotkin
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Joel Kotkin's personal blog at joelkotkin.com covers economics and politics. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Joel Kotkin's writing on urban and suburban population trends and a research piece on wealthy Californians leaving the state. One commenter points to the research as data-based.
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Described by NY Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends.
What Hacker News says?
If we look at the actual population growth trends, the suburbs are experiencing plenty of growth, not a decline, even if cities are doing well too (especially compared to the 70s/80s). In the New York City metro area, 29% of the population growth took place in NYC proper, as opposed to the rest in the suburban counties. One demographic of 20-somethings and a few interviewed people does not offset the rest of the pop…
Comment linking /content/00406-cities-and-census-cities-neither-booming-nor-withering
on “Suburbs Try to Prevent an Exodus as Young Adults Move to Cities and Stay”Submitted Today’s Tech Oligarchs Are Worse Than the Robber Barons as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis reads like a disjointed opinion piece but it does link to one piece of research on the topic by Joel Kotkin that looks a bit more grounded in data: https://joelkotkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Restoring_...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Restoring_the_California_Dream.pdf
on “Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy”Submitted Are We Heading for an Economic Civil War? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Revolt Against Urban Gentry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of 'Superstar Cities' as a story · 1 points
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