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Cyril Roseman

Founder of the Urban Studies Program (now Urban Studies & Plannning) at San Francisco State College (now University) in 1966

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Mannheim and the network state

Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction was published in 1940. Today, it reads like a prescient framework for examining our fractured society in the USA.

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Two U.S. District Court decisions

Two significant U.S. District Court decisions were handed down in the first week of September 2025. One concerns the use of the U.S. military for domestic policing. The other ruling addressed the revocation of federal research grant funding from a university.

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Where investors own larger shares of single-family homes in the USA

Small‑scale owners hold three to five times as many homes as large‑scale operators. This runs counter to the popular narrative that institutional investors are the primary force reshaping single‑family housing markets.

Statements by POTUS47 at the World Economic Forum

Statements about U.S. spending, deficit reduction, inflation, and regulatory reform were false, misleading, and unsupported.

Understanding the “Donroe Doctrine”

How POTUS47’s Venezuela strike is redifining hemispheric intervention by the United States of America

Four US corporate organizational models

A range of organizational structures exists for enterprises seeking to balance profit, purpose, and public accountability.

The Moynihan Report and single-family housing in the USA

The Moynihan Report (1965) reinforced America’s single-family housing bias

ARES Urbanexus Update #178

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.