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Weak Ties,"
American Journal of Sociology
78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360–80.
    42. Peter Hall,
Cities in Civilization
(New York: Fromm International, 1998), p. 494.
    43. Ibid., pp. 526–35.
    44. AnnaLee Saxenian,
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994). See also AnnaLee Saxenian, "Lessons from Silicon Valley,"
Technology Review,
July 1994, pp 42–51.
    45. Glaeser and Gottlieb, "Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City," p. 2.
    46. Jung Won Sonn and Michael Storper, "The Increasing Importance of Geographic Proximity in Technological Innovation: An Analysis of U.S. Patent Citations, 1975–1997" (paper prepared for the conference "What Do We Know About Innovation?" November 2003).
    47. Randall Stross, "It's Not Who You Know. It's Where You Are,"
New York Times,
October 22, 2006.
    48. Sam Roberts, "Tech-Drive Metro Areas Renew Their Population Gains,"
New York Times,
April 5, 2007, p. A11.
    49. Glaeser and Gottlieb, "Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City," p. 13.
    50. Cortright, "The Young and Restless," p. 10.
    51. N. C. Aizenman, "D.C. May Be Losing Status as a Majority-Black City,"
Washington Post,
May 17, 2007, p. A1.
    52. Glaeser and Gottlieb, "Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City," pp. 13–15.
    53. Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai, "Superstar Cities" (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12355, July 2006).
    54. Glaeser and Gottlieb, "Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City."
    55. Richard Florida, "Cities and the Creative Class,"
City and Community,
March 2003, pp. 3–19.
    56. Terry Nichols Clark,
The City as Entertainment Machine
(Oxford: Elsevier, 2004).
    57. Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai, "Superstar Cities," p. 2.
    58. Data collected by the Bus Project in Portland, Oregon, and provided to the author.
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    7.
Religion: The Missionary and the Megachurch
    1. Brad Stone, "Social Networking's Next Phase,"
New York Times,
March 3, 2007, p. B1.
    2. Rick Warren,
The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1995), pp. 29–30.
    3. Donald McGavran, quoted in a presentation by Robert Shuster to Wheaton College alumni, May 11, 2002, Billy Graham Archives, Wheaton College, http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/treasure/tr02/tr02.html .
    4. C. Peter Wagner, ed.,
Church Growth: State of the Art
(Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1986), p. 9.
    5. Donald McGavran,
The Bridges of God
(New York: Friendship Press, 1968), PP. 44. 59.
    6. Ibid., p. 66.
    7. J. Waskom Pickett,
Christian Mass Movements in India
(New York: Abingdon Press, 1933), p. 43.
    8. Ibid., pp. 43–45.
    9. Wagner,
Church Growth,
pp. 41–42.
    10. Donald McGavran, quoted in Wagner,
Church Growth,
p. 9.
    11. McGavran,
The Bridges of God,
pp. 44–45.
    12. Donald McGavran,
Understanding Church Growth
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970), p. 107.
    13. Ibid., pp. 190, 198, 271.
    14. Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen, eds.,
Understanding Church Growth and Decline: 1950–1978
(New York: Pilgrim Press, 1979), pp. 70–80.
    15. Eddie Gibbs, Donald A. McGavran Professor of Church Growth, Fuller Theological Seminary, interview with author, 2005.
    16. Ibid.
    17. Michael Luo, "Religion: With Expansion Stalled, Some Consider Steps Such as Replacing Pews with Tables and Chairs to Draw Young Congregants,"
Los Angeles Times,
June 7, 1999.
    18. Scott Thumma, Dave Travis, and Warren Bird, "Megachurches Today 2005: Summary of Research Findings" (paper prepared for the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2005), p. 13, http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/megastoday2005_summaryreport.html .
    19. Malcolm Gladwell, "The Cellular Church: How Rick Warren's Congregation Grew,"
The New Yorker,
September 12, 2005, pp. 60–67.
    20. Joel Comiskey, "Cell-Based Ministry: A Positive Factor for Church Growth in Latin America" (PhD diss., Fuller Theological Seminary, June 1997), pp.