Joseph Cortright offers a rebuttal to Joel Kotkin's criticism of Portland as an 'Ephemeral City'.
"When you read Kotkin's concept of the Ephemeral City, ask yourself which Joel Kotkin you should believe: the one who wrote this piece for The Oregonian, or the one who wrote pretty much the opposite in a report for St. Louis last year and in his 2000 book, "The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape."
...There's a difference between the deft turn of a phrase and thoughtful scholarship. How can Kotkin come down with such assured conviction on both sides of these questions? Maybe he's just confused."
Thanks to Sheila Edmundson Redick
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