Urbanization

By Charles Somers

Clough article

• With the development of the information age, New York has lost it’s title as economic capital of America.

• AOL’s decision to buy Time Warner Entertainment has the potential to shift power from the west coast back to New York.

Kotkin articles

• Over the past 25 years, per capita income, based on purchasing power parity, grew by over 400% in India and a remarkable 1,500% in China.

Brown-gridded lives

Nugent-the great translantic migrations

Rybczynski-The city in the land of the dollar

The Greyest generation

A plan b for obama

The tryanny of metaphor