What Joel Kotkin thinks about remote work
American writer on cities and demography; Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University. Executive editor of NewGeography.com until it closed at the end of 2025; author of The Human City (2016) and The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (2020); argues for suburbs and dispersed growth.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Joel Kotkin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingTechnology is enabling worker dispersion and may reduce the necessity of dense urban centers.
Their wordsHowever, technology such as remote work, video conferencing, and instantaneous communication is enabling worker dispersion, bearing out Frank Lloyd Wright's prediction that in the future "the city should be everywhere and nowhere."