When Curt Johnson and I came up with the “citistates” term a decade ago, we didn’t have raging San Diego fires in mind. But now, somewhat to our amazement, San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Richard Louv is writing of how San Diego, with an outpouring of timely civic will and agreement across the borders of its [...]
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DESPERATELY SEEKING SHEEPSKINS — Peirce column stirs reaction
Neal Peirce’s weekly column dated November 23 points to emerging research that should pull the props from under the assumptions still made by most city officials — that the path to progress lies in population growth. Setting aside this shopworn proxy for prosperity, economists Robert Weissbourd of RW Ventures and Christopher Berry of Harvard University [...]