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Key Reports
Preparing for Growth: An Emerging Neighborhood Market Analysis Commissioned by Mayor Frank G. Jackson for the City of Cleveland, Engaged Scholarship, May, 2017
Center for Population Dynamics Quarterly Brief January 2017: Transportation’s Role in the Economic Restructuring of Cleveland, Engaged Scholarship, January, 2017
Center for Population Dynamics Quarterly Brief July 2016: Population Loss and Development Trends in Cleveland, Engaged Scholarship, July, 2016
Center for Population Dynamics Quarterly Brief July 2016: Population Loss and Development Trends in Cleveland, Engaged Scholarship, July, 2016
Downtown Cleveland: The Dynamic Engine of a Talent-Driven Economy, Engaged Scholarship, May, 2016
Cleveland Works: Employment Trends, 2014 to 2015, Engaged Scholarship, March, 2016
The Fifth Migration: A Study of Cleveland Millennials, Engaged Scholarship, January, 2016
Center for Population Dynamics Quarterly Brief: A Reason to Be- The "Upskilling" of Cleveland's Workforce, Engaged Scholarship, October, 2015
Mapping Adult Migration in Cleveland, Ohio, Engaged Scholarship, June, 2015
From Metal to Minds: Economic Restructuring in the Rust Belt, Engaged Scholarship, April, 2015
Cleveland: A High-Skilled Immigrant Destination, Engaged Scholarship, January, 2015
A Newer Geography of Jobs: Where Workers with Advanced Degrees Are Concentrating the Fastest, September, 2014
Ranking America’s Top Young Adult Labor Forces: A Rust Belt Rising? Engaged Scholarship, August, 2014
Globalizing Cleveland: A Path Forward, Engaged Scholarship, May, 2014
From Balkanized Cleveland to Global Cleveland: A White Paper, Engaged Scholarship, March, 2014
Essays and Editorials
The Wrong Way to Grow a City, City Lab, May, 2017
'Smart Decline' Is Dumb, City Lab, March, 2017
The Rust Belt “Comeback”: To What?, Huffington Post, February, 2017
A Little Strategy can go a long way in the Land's Neighborhoods, Cleveland Magazine, November, 2016
Personal View: Economic growth, not population growth, will drive Cleveland's comeback, Crain's Cleveland, September, 2016
Cleveland’s Divide Is America’s Division, Huffington Post, July, 2016
Sorry, Your City is Not the Next Silicon Valley, Huffington Post, March, 2016
White Coats, Cleveland Magazine, March, 2016
Cleveland's future - reaching beyond the distress: Richey Piiparinen, Cleveland Plain Dealer, March, 2016
Renaissance Fair, December, 2015
No Need to Knock, Cleveland Magazine, April, 2015
A tale of two Clevelands, editorial in Cleveland Plain Dealer, April, 2015
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead, The Daily Beast, December, 2014
Your reality of the Rust Belt is out of date, Crain’s Cleveland, December, 2014
Makers Mark, Cleveland Magazine, December, 2014
Cleveland's brain drain hysteria breeds bad policy, Crain’s Cleveland, October, 2014
The Newer Geography of Jobs: A Rise of the Rest?, Crain’s Cleveland, October, 2014
America's Top Young Adult Workforces: A Rust Belt Rebirth? essay in Huffington Post, August, 2014
Cleveland, LeBron, and the Evolution of Collective Shame, essay in Huffington Post, July, 2014
Cleveland Battles Rust Belt Stereotypes in Bid for the GOP Convention, essay in Huffington Post, July, 2014
The Ugly City Beautiful - A Policy Analysis, Engaged Scholarship, June, 2014
Visualizing Cleveland's future without 'rust-colored' glasses, editorial in Cleveland Plain Dealer, June, 2014
Population Growth as the Cure for the Incredible Shrinking City? A Research Editorial, Engaged Scholarship, May, 2014
The remake by the lake, editorial in Cleveland Plain Dealer, April, 2014
Sorry, Neil, Rust Does in Fact Sleep, essay in Huffington Post, Feb., 2014
Cleveland sings a new Rust Belt tune, editorial in Cleveland Plain Dealer, Feb., 2014
Press and Expert Commentary
CSU report advises Cleveland to invest public money in East Side neighborhoods, Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 2017
Jobs doubled along Euclid Avenue after completion of HealthLine: CSU study, Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 2017
Crowning The King: LeBron James is Sports Illustrated's 2016 Sportsperson of the Year, Sports Illustrated, December 2016
Trump's Rust Belt, The Atlantic CITYLAB, November 11, 2016
Cleveland can grow if it meets rising demand for housing and keeps millennials in town: CSU study, Cleveland Plain Dealer, July, 2016
How are millennials leaving their mark on the Rust Belt?, PBS Newshour, July, 2016
It's time to retire tired talk about the "Rust Belt", CBS Marketwatch, July, 2016
Why it will be hard to make Cleveland great again, CBC, July, 2016
Trump Wins Republican Nomination, BBC Business Matters, July, 2016
Influx of Younger, Wealthier Residents Transforms U.S. Cities, Wall Street Journal, June, 2016
Downtown Cleveland grows, but study shows urban revival has a long way to go, Cleveland Plain Dealer, May, 2016
Cleveland ranks 8th in U.S. in growth rate of college-educated millennials, study says, Cleveland Plain Dealer, January, 2016
Millennial Migration to Cleveland, Sound of Ideas, August, 2015
Cleveland’s immigrant advantage: the huddled masses are brilliant, Cleveland Plain Dealer, January, 2015
Rust Belt revival, Globe and Mail, January, 2015
Cleveland’s Growing Pains: From Balkanized to Globalized, Speech at the City Club of Cleveland, Ideastream, November, 2014
Numbers Game, Inside Business, November, 2014
America’s Smartest Cities, Forbes, November, 2014
How Elon Musk Can Make Buffalo Known for More Than Wings? Bloomberg, November, 2014
Hometown hero or new star? ESPN The Magazine, October, 2014
Cleveland is making progress in attracting highly skilled young people: editorial, Cleveland Plain Dealer, August, 2014
Cleveland's young adult workforce ranks among the brightest in America, study finds, Cleveland Plain Dealer, August, 2014
The people designing your cities don’t care what you want. They’re planning for hipsters. Washington Post, August, 2014
Cleveland has been on the rebound even before LeBron James news, Los Angeles Times, July, 2014
What's the key to turning around Rust Belt cities? Los Angeles Times, July, 2014
Shaking Off The Rust: Cleveland Workforce Gets Younger And Smarter, Forbes, June, 2014
Cleveland Brain Gain, WCPN Sound of Ideas, June, 2014
How To Grow Cleveland With A Global Perspective, WCPN All Things Considered, May, 2014
Global Cleveland wants to reverse the city's population decline: editorial, Cleveland Plain Dealer, May, 2014
Unexpected brain gain boosts Cleveland toward new economy, study finds, Cleveland Plain Dealer, April, 2014
The numbers show it: Cleveland actually experiencing 'brain gain', WKYC, April, 2014
Cleveland's "trouble-making" demographer gets a center to plot the region's growth: The Mix, Cleveland Plain Dealer, March, 2014
Editorial Agenda 2014: Fixing the fundamentals to add jobs, vitality, economic muscle and brainpower in Greater Cleveland: editorial, Cleveland Plain Dealer, February, 2014
New people, new cultures = renewed Cleveland: editorial, Cleveland Plain Dealer, December, 2013
Global cities are prosperous cities; researchers say Cleveland must welcome the world, Cleveland Plain Dealer, November, 2013