Joel Kotkin

“The suburbs are the last bastion of the American dream.”

“For the vast majority of Americans, the dream is not to live in a dense city but to have a house with a yard.”

“The great urban sociologist, Harvey Zorbaugh, once described the city as a mosaic of little worlds.”

“What is emerging is a new class divide, not between rich and poor, but between the propertied and the property-less.”

“The real dividing line in American society is not between the states, but between the suburbs, the city, and the countryside.”

“We are moving into a world of neo-feudalism, with a new aristocracy, a new clergy, and a new serfdom.”

“The tech oligarchs are the new aristocracy.”

“The new geography of opportunity is being shaped by the movement of people and capital to more affordable, less regulated, and more business-friendly places.”

“Cities are, first of all, seats of the exalted, and secondarily, places of the anonymous.”

“The future of the American city is not in the high-rise, but in the single-family home.”

“The great majority of people, given a choice, will choose a suburban existence.”

“The global city is a place of spectacle, not a place of community.”

“Humanity's future is not in the dense city, but in the dispersed metropolis.”

“For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is not engaged in the production of food.”

“The green movement has become a new religion for the secular.”