The Sixth Migration

In 1925, urban planner & historian Lewis Mumford described four “great tides” of migration that reflected the economic transformation of the US. Eight decades later, Robert Fishman (professor of architecture & urban planning at the University of Michigan) noted the large-scale return of people to global cities, labeling it the Fifth Migration. Today’s great tide, the Sixth Migration, is ebbing from global cities & towards a better quality of life.

Monday, February 09, 2015

In Big City, New Ideas Aren't as Promiscuous as They Used to Be

Ideas can have just as much sex in the suburbs as in the city.

Theme: Innovation geography

Subject Article: "Cities and Ideas."

Other Links: 1. "No Innovation Without Migration: Do Places Make People?"
2. "The Urban Tech Revolution."
3. "Urban Density and the Rate of Invention."
4. "1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, a.k.a. the Hart-Cellar Act."
5. "Manufacturing Migration: Who Will Move for Low-Skill, Low-Pay Jobs?"
6. "Density Boondoggles: Innovation Districts."
7. "Regional network drives growth of UK’s tech nation."

Postscript: For a companion paper to "Cities and Ideas", see "New Ideas in Invention."
Jim Russell at 1:30 PM

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