Showing posts with label urbanization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urbanization. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

How the Detroit Syndrome will Affect Industrial era Urbanization

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Finally someone in the mainstream partly shares my view on why the centralization “urbanization” paradigm of economic growth represents a ...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Telecommuting: 10% of US Employees are Home Based

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I wrote here and here denoting of how the forces of decentralization, which has been underpinned by the deepening of technology inn ovati...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Video: CBS 60 minutes on China’s Ghost Cities: Largest housing bubble in human history

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CBS 60 minutes has a very insightful investigative report on China's property bubble. Reporter Lesley Stahl calls this perhaps the larg...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Information Age: Individual Job Outsourcing

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Outsourcing has been largely thought as mainly company based commercial operations. However in the real world, given today’s deepening of t...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Deepening of the Information Age: More Signs of Telecommuting

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Why I don’t b uy the mainstream’s embrace of the supposed deepening trend of urbanization? Because the pa st is hardly the future . T echn...
Sunday, September 09, 2012

Video: The Power of the Undervalued $10 Trillion Informal Economy

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Author Robert Neuwirth of Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy makes a great talk at the TED anent the vastly underr...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Will Urbanization Save China’s Capital Spending Bubble?

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Mr. Stephen Roach, Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, writing at the Project Syndicate thinks so, Reports of ghost cities, bridges to no...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

China’s Urbanization: City Population Surpasses Rural Population

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China’s urban population has surpassed the rural population for the first time. The Economist writes , FOR a nation whose culture and...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Cities, Mathematics and Human Action

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Below is an interesting talk by physicist Geoffrey West at the TED forum on Cities. Some points he makes; -It’s hard to kill a city. ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Urbanization and the Knowledge Economy

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Investing guru Templeton’s Mark Mobius, reflecting on the mainstream view, believes that “Urbanization” will drive emerging market investmen...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

China To Build The World’s Largest Megacity

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Drunk with the recent success of combining capitalism with her “communist” political structure, the Chinese government has embarked on a gra...