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Why Do People Move? Here Are the Top Reasons for Relocation
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View ArticleWhy Do Our Cities Need to Change? Because We Have Changed.
Changing demographics mean not just changing preferences but a proliferation of preferences. How can cities adapt?
View ArticleWhy You’re Better Off Moving Than Voting
As our communities become more politically polarized, if you want change, you're more likely to find it in another city than by trying to change your own. Here's why:
View ArticleJoel Kotkin, the Livability Interview
Livability interviews Joel Kotkin about his new book, generational differences, the conflict between city and suburbs, and the conflict between his work and the work of other urban theorists.
View ArticleDo People Really Move for Better Cities?
I started off the year reading Carol Coletta’s great guest post on City Observatory. It’s a good way to kick things off by thinking about the role of placemaking and livability in our cities – not...
View ArticleHalf of All Americans Live in These Counties
It takes just 147 counties out of 3,143 to house half of the U.S. population. We’re that top-heavy. That’s fewer than 5 percent of the counties in the U.S. In terms of population, counties are...
View ArticleHow Do We Measure Progress and Equity in Cities?
The unemployment rate for African American men and women in the U.S. is roughly double that of white Americans. This isn’t a new problem, and it’s not an easy one to solve. However, it seems to be one...
View ArticleWho’s moving where: 2015 edition.
Both the U.S. Census Bureau and the Internal Revenue Service released updates to their migration data recently. The topline from the Census is that nearly one in five movers leave one metro area and...
View ArticleWho's moving where: Singles vs. Married Couples
This week we release our Top 10 Best Cities for Singles. Part of the criteria was that the city have a large proportion of single people in peak marriage ages. The cities at the top of the list were,...
View ArticleWho’s moving where: The state-to-state edition
Who’s moving where: The state-to-state edition Net migration is a helpful stat. Which states are gaining and losing population based on more people moving in than moving out. It will show that, for...
View ArticleMapping everything you need to know about the U.S. population
America is getting older, more diverse, younger, and families by and large have less and less money to respond to changes in their lives and lifestyles and even maintain their status quo. These are...
View ArticleAre the "Hip" Cities Too Cool For Families?
There are more dogs than children in San Francisco, a city losing families at a rapid rate, according to a new study by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy written by Joel Kotkin. The...
View ArticleWhere do Millennials Live?
Much is written about what the Millennials, these young 20- and now 30-somethings, want in life and the impact they have on the world and the world has on them. In Livability terms, they’re often...
View ArticleHow to Make Your City a Best Place to Live (Part II)
Who lives in your town? Odds are it’s not a perfectly representative demographic breakdown. Your fellow residents likely are older than other cities, or more diverse, or lower income. In short, every...
View ArticleFive Things to Know About Fast-Growing Cities
Cities large and small saw population growth since the 2010 Census. Some unlikely places have wound up as fast-growing cities. But how that growth happened and where the winners and losers were...
View ArticlePittsburgh’s Impending Demographic Turnaround and the Challenges That Await...
Recently I had the opportunity to walk through one of America’s great cities (Chicago) with the mayor of another great city: Pittsburgh. Bill Peduto, still in the early months of his mayorship, was in...
View ArticleNew Stats: What Boomers and Millennials Want in Cities
Markets are not democracies. While majorities are important, they’re not the only thing that’s important. Sizeable minorities matter, too. So I read with great interest three surveys that came out...
View Article5 Things to Know About the Census Population Estimates
My favorite division of government released its annual Census Population Estimates for the nation's states, counties and cities. I know you’re as excited as I am, so let’s skip the preamble and dive...
View ArticleWhy Do Our Cities Need to Change? Because We Have Changed.
Changing demographics mean not just changing preferences but a proliferation of preferences. How can cities adapt?
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