Dallas’ Core Strength: Keeping Our Middle Class

Most of the attentiona and ink by urbanists goes to yuppies and Baby Boomers, because young single professionals rent downtown apartments and empty-nesters buy them. But, Joel Kotkin argues, those two groups are minor: they only add the flavor to the stew. The real meat and potatoes is the new urban middle class, the people who build and remake the neighborhoods that make a city flourish.