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The Geography of NYC's Children: More Evidence of Urban Popularity
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 05/05/2015 - 11:33amConventional wisdom is that making urban cores stronger and more pedestrian-friendly is irrelevant to the interests of American parents, who supposedly want to live in suburbs or faux-suburbs at the edge of cities.
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Some Cities Have More Children Than Their Suburbs
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 4:51pmToday, I read a blog post by Joel Kotkin asserting, for the umpteeth time, that famlies with children prefer suburbs. But at the bottom of the post is a chart comparing the child population (as a percentage of total population) for dozens of cities and their suburbs.
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A Choice, Not An Echo
Submitted by MLewyn on Mon, 08/05/2013 - 10:09amIn the most recent City Journal, Joel Kotkin wrote an article discussing cities' alleged loss of children, and arguing that cities would be more successful in retaining children if only they could be more like low-density suburbs.
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Streets are for Everyone: Involving Children in Tacoma’s Complete Streets Program
Submitted by Alex McKeag on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 10:41pmThis is a guest blog post from two planning interns with The City of Tacoma, WA. They brought the concept of Complete Streets to local elementary students, and asked them to envision the kind of streets they want in their community.
THE PROJECT
What started as a project for two planning interns with... read more »
The Horror of Highways cont'd, The Educational Tradeoff: Easy Driving or Easy Breathing
Submitted by Carl.Beien on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 3:01pmThe University of Cincinnati has just completed an air pollution that takes another look at highway placement with respect to our daily patterns of living.
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