What City Observatory did this week 1. Cities continue to attract the young and restless. We’ve seen some push-back in the last few months, arguing that city population growth is no longer outpacing suburbs, and that the movement back to…
In auto-land, pedestrians are just one more patented gimmick away from being safe The dominant approach to automobile safety has, for many years, been the quintessential technical fix. Some combination of new technologies (anti-lock brakes, collapsible steering columns, crush zones,…
The young and restless are continuing to move to the nation’s large cities One trend that highlights the growing demand for city living is the increasing tendency of well-educated young adults to live in the close-in urban neighborhoods of the…
Affordable housing and sensible transportation were our most-read features #7 – Urban myth busting: How building more high income housing helps affordability. One of the predictable lamentations about the housing market is that developers are always building new structures for…
What City Observatory did this week 1. Should cities be worried about “Peak Millennial?” Time magazine highlighted data from three cities where the count of millennials has declined in the past year, according to the American Community Survey. To some,…