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Aaron M. Renn has been widely praised and featured numerous times in the media across America. His innovative ideas on cities have been covered by outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, Indianapolis Monthly, and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as broadcast on WFYI-TV (Indianapolis), WDET-FM Radio (Detroit), and Smart City Radio, a syndicated national radio program on cities.

Press inquiries are welcomed. Contact Aaron M. Renn at arenn@urbanophile.com.

RECENT PRESS COVERAGE

“California’s Top Earners Dwindling as Brown Counts on Their Higher Taxes”
Bloomberg News (January 10, 2012)

“U.S. Population Migrates From Coasts for ‘Gigantic’ Income Boost”
Bloomberg News via San Francisco Chronicle (December 20, 2011)

“CHA Plans to Transform Lathrop Homes Raises Community Concerns”
Chicago Public Radio (November 16, 2011)

“On Urban Ex-Pat Networks in NYC”
The L Magazine (September 28, 2011)

“Chicago’s Black Population Dwindles, Census Numbers Show”
Huffington Post Black Voices (August 4, 2011)

“Q&A With Aaron Renn”
Monocle (July/August 2011) – subscription required

“In bad times, big-ticket amenities in Dallas are booming”
Dallas Morning News (July 30, 2011) – subscription required

“City poised to rebrand, revamp Georgia St.”
Indianapolis Business Journal (July 25-31, 2011) – subscription required

“Finding Austin”
Houston Press (June 9, 2011)

“PNC’s plan could be harbinger of Downtown revival”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (May 29, 2011)

“The polarized race map of America”
Daily Mail (UK) (March 31, 2011)

“New Census data shows which areas of America are growing, shrinking”
Yahoo News (March 30, 2011)

“How race and ethnicity is distributed across the US”
Gawker (March 29, 2011)

“What the Census Tells Us About America’s Future”
Forbes (February 25, 2011)

“Bürgermeisterwahlen in Chicago”
Swiss Public Radio (February 18, 2011) – In German

“Mayor Monday: Assessing Chicago’s Transportation Future”
WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago Public Radio (January 10, 2011)

“Where the Smart People are Going”
The Atlantic (December 21, 2010)

“The Top 10 Places in America Poised for Recovery”
Newsweek (November 8, 2010)

“The Capital of the New South Looks Vulnerable”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 26, 2010) – bylined opinion column

“Time Expired: The End of the Parking Meter”
Tom Vanderbilt/Slate (October 18, 2010)

“City vendor may get $1.2B from parking-privatization deal”
Indianapolis Business Journal (August 28, 2010)

“Columbus proud to be blue collar town”
The Republic (Columbus, IN) (August 27, 2010)

“Bold Public-Private Venture Aims to Make Portland an ‘Icon of Sustainability’”
The New York Times (July 7, 2010)

“Mayor Daley runs up big debts building his global city; what about the rest of Chicago?”
Crain’s Chicago Business (June 14, 2010)

“Let’s see the world as it could be”
The Indianapolis Star (June 13, 2010)

“Two Takes On Atlanta”
The Atlantic Monthly (May 21, 2010)

“Cleveland Missing Out On Immigrant Wave”
Crain’s Cleveland Business (May 21, 2010)

“Don’t Let Anyone Else In On This”
Adaptistration (May 20, 2010)

“Blogger says Cincinnati could set the bar for urban casinos”
Cincinnati Business Courier (April 16, 2010)

“Rethinking Detroit’s Decline”
Reihan Salam / National Review (March 31, 2010)

“Urban expert lauds Indianapolis for progress”
Indianapolis Business Journal (March 24, 2010)

“The Campaign to Save the Rust Belt”
The Atlantic (March 19, 2010)

“Area looks to learn from stimulus fund loss”
Rockford Register Star (March 14, 2010)

“Top Ten Web Sites for 2010″
Planetizen (March 1, 2010) – honorable mention

“Urbanophile Offers Solutions for Transit”
WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago Public Radio (February 8, 2010)

“Meet the Urbanophile”
Nuvo Newsweekly (February 3, 2010) – interview

“Picture-Perfect Portland?”
The Oregonian (January 17, 2010) – bylined opinion article

“Hotels Spark Expansion of Downtown Skywalk System”
Indianapolis Business Journal (January 16, 2010)

“Vacancies Abound Before Chicago Rebounds”
WBEZ-FM 91.5 Chicago Public Radio (January 12, 2010)

“The Rise of the Megaregion”
Governing (January 2010)

“Detroit Today”
WDET-FM 101.9 (December 15, 2009) – 20 minute segment begins approx. 31:00

“The Mayor as CEO”
Forbes (December 3, 2009) – bylined opinion article

“Plowing Detroit Into Farmland – Idea of the Day Blog”
The New York Times (November 9, 2009)

“Detroit: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
TIME (November 7, 2009)

“Parcels on Canal Hit Market”
Indianapolis Business Journal (September 12, 2009)

“Pittsburgh? Yes, Pittsburgh”
Forbes (September 2, 2009)

“Brick City and a Conversation With the Urbanophile”
Smart City Radio (September 2009)

“Public Transit Learns to Dream Again”
Crain’s Chicago Business (August 21, 2009)

“Looking Ahead”
Indianapolis Monthly (August 2009)

“Cincinnati Streetcars, Soup to Nuts”
Business Courier of Cincinnati (August 3, 2009)

“City Garden and Chicago’s Millennium Park: A Comparison”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 7, 2009)

“Will the Loop exhaust its economic niche?”
Crain’s Chicago Business (June 9, 2009)

“The Diaspora Report: Are Californians dreamin’…of a Rust Belt destination?”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 5, 2009)

“For talent – good jobs, cool places, new narrative”
Crain’s Detroit Business (May 31, 2009) – subscription required

“Chicago Blog Review: The Urbanophile”
The Beachwood Reporter (May 22, 2009)

“How the ‘Average Jane’ Changed a Neighborhood”
Christian Science Monitor (May 22, 2009)

“For a better train, first know where you’re going”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (March 31, 2009)

“Chicago Transit: Ideas to Reach 1 Billion Rides a Year”
Chicago Tribune (March 30, 2009)

AWARDS & HONORS

Honorable Mention, Top 10 Web Sites of 2010, Planetizen, March 2010
“The fresh ideas and innovative suggestions outlined almost daily in the Urbanophile offer a cogent and achievable sense of hope for the urban areas of the world.”

“The New News: Journalism We Want and Need”, Community Media Workshop/Chicago Community Trust, June 2009
Noted as being among top online publications “that in addition to providing entertaining and informative content were influential, innovative, and had thought through their relationship to their audience as seen by their efforts at transparency.”

First Prize, “Ideas for Increasing Public Transportation Use to Reduce Greenhouse Gases in Chicago”, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce/Innocentive, March 2009
“Brought new, innovative ideas to the forefront which potentially can be put into practice at our local transit agencies.”

About the Urbanophile

Aaron M. Renn is an opinion-leading urban analyst, consultant, speaker, and writer on a mission to help America’s cities thrive and find sustainable success in the 21st century.

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Urbanophile in the News

Bloomberg News: California’s Top Earners Dwindling as Brown Counts on Their Higher Taxes

Bloomberg News: U.S. Population Migrates From Coasts for 'Gigantic' Income Boost - via San Francisco Chronicle

Chicago Public Radio: CHA Plans to Transform Lathrop Homes Raises Community Concerns

The L Magazine: On Urban Ex-Pat Networks in NYC

Monocle: Q&A With Aaron Renn - subscription required

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@mclawyer Yes, in fact, I previously ran a very well-received article by @unsungsongs on those very efforts.