Author: Mike Sitkowski

  • The Urban East

    The Urban East

    The new Global Cities Index and Emerging Cities Outlook report looks at the international powerhouses of tomorrow

  • Metro Recovery in a Global Economy

    Metro Recovery in a Global Economy

    U.S. metros, the nation’s exporters, are driving economic recovery.

  • Still Unequal, Less Separate

    Still Unequal, Less Separate

    A recent paper found that Americans are highly segregated by income. A new paper finds the opposite is true for race.

  • Rust Belt Revival:  The New Mayor of Gary Talks Economic Development

    Rust Belt Revival: The New Mayor of Gary Talks Economic Development

    Taking the helm of the downtrodden city, Karen Freeman-Wilson has ambitious plans. And major hurdles.

  • Protesters and Pepper Spray

    Protesters and Pepper Spray

    Police action is quieting the public square.

  • Most Unequal, More Separate:  How Income Segregation Skyrocketed In U.S. Cities

    Most Unequal, More Separate: How Income Segregation Skyrocketed In U.S. Cities

    A pair of researchers explain why our cities have been pulled apart and how we can mend them back together.

  • Missing the Middle

    Missing the Middle

    The nation’s neighborhoods increasingly segregate by income.

  • Greening the Rust Belt

    As the economy struggles to rebound and the foreclosure crisis takes its toll on American cities, vacant land and abandoned buildings continue to abound. For America’s once-great manufacturing cities, the impact has been even greater as metropolitan areas throughout the Midwest struggle to find an identity in a post-industrial world.…