There’s a decently if not very deftly balanced comparison of Gilbert, Arizona, to Portland, Oregon, in the Christian Science Monitor today. The star of the piece is urbanologist Joel Kotkin, so Gilbert doesn’t suffer the usual big-city-dweller’s I-just-don’t-get-it sliming. The issue of fecundity is touched upon without any mention of the fact that Gilbert is fecundity made flesh — that cities like Gilbert are where U.S. population growth occurs. Portland’s New Urbanism is detailed, although neither Richard Florida nor the much lower fecundity rates — or even net population decline — associated with the New Urbanist movement are mentioned.

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