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Ohio is still growing slowly, but it grew faster the past decade than at any time since the 1990s, and before that, the 1960s. It also exceeded its 2020 census

There is so little being written on the experience of life in the pandemic from a blue-collar, working-class, lower-income person's first-hand perspective. It is the majority perspective of our society,

1) A short thread on urbanism in disinvested and economically-challenged places, inspired by a thought-provoking line of inquiry being pursued by @ad_mastro 2) Most popularly-embraced urbanist thinking and discourse around

1) A thread on the geographic imbalance of cultural power in the United States.First, a few words on cultural power, in the interest of avoiding misunderstandings about what I'm saying.

1) I miss getting together with people. But the tragedy of the pandemic has been an opportunity (welcome or not) to reset and reassess our social lives. 2) In the

The last year these cities were at the population that they have today:Akron - 1919Buffalo - 1890Cincinnati - 1892Cleveland - 1900Dayton - 1917Detroit - 1914Erie - 1921Flint - 1921Gary -

It's a travesty that voters in some of our largest states, including Ohio, never got a say in the Democratic presidential contest.Our current system of interminable, farcical "debates" and primaries

A tale of two Midwests: 1) The edge city boomburb:https://twitter.com/aaron_renn/status/1263834289432678402?s=20 2) And the older industrial city, hollowed-out by deindustrialization and disinvestment:https://twitter.com/aaron_renn/status/1

1) Cleveland's metropolitan planning organization is spearheading an effort to do away with the Akron and Canton metropolitan areas and to merge them with Cleveland.I have thoughts on this. Thread

Two comments on this thread:1) Demolition doesn't cause gentrification. It normally ensures it won't happen. The most demolished cities are the least "gentrified".https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1198974427574263810?s=20 2)

1) A thread and new blog post about the Great Disconnect, in terms of urban needs, between the nation's elite, mainly coastal, cities; and many of the cities located within