Rural-Urban Divide in America

The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/14/opinion/rural-america-trump-decline.html

Dominance of 'Superstar Cities':

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/richard-florida-winner-take-all-new-urban-crisis/522630/

Map: These cities are home to the nation’s biggest companies

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/amazon-map-cities-home-nation-biggest-companies

Lessons from Rust-Belt Cities That Kept Their Sheen

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/business/economy/rust-belt-cities.html

Related:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04_brookings-metro_older-industrial-cities_full-report-berube_murray_-final-version_af4-18.pdf

Rust Belt Cities Should Try Embracing the Suburbs

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-05/city-suburb-consolidation-might-reverse-rust-belt-urban-decline

Why Germany has no gilet jaunes protesters

https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/02/09/why-germany-has-no-gilet-jaunes-protesters

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Behind Seattle’s Amazon Tax: Seething Tensions, Livid Neighbors, and Rising Rents

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-15/behind-seattle-s-amazon-tax-seething-tensions-livid-neighbors-and-rising-rents

There Are Better Ways to Get Around Town

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/there-are-better-ways-to-get-around-town.html

Minneapolis has found a different way to make it in the modern economy

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-28/maybe-cities-don-t-need-tech-hubs-to-succeed

Pittsburgh Shows the Way to a Rust Belt Rebound

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-13/pittsburgh-shows-the-way-to-a-rust-belt-rebound

Google and the City of Toronto
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/googles-guinea-pig-city/552932/

Urban versus Rural Split – Impact on Higher Education

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/us/rural-colleges-money-students-leaving.html

“In large parts of the Midwest and Northeast, public universities far from urban centers are hurting for students and money. And they are facing painful choices.”
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‘Superstars’: The dynamics of firms, sectors, and cities leading the global economy

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/innovation-and-growth/superstars-the-dynamics-of-firms-sectors-and-cities-leading-the-global-economy

[Click on Discussion Paper – PDF]

Cities versus Rural Areas– David Autor Video Presentation at the AEA 2019

https://www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/2019/aea-ely-lecture-work-of-the-past-work-of-the-future