Posted by Leonard Steinberg of URBAN COMPASS on November 20th, 2014 Major Urban Centers such as New York are growing: In 1950, about 825 million people lived in large cities and two-thirds of the world’s 2.5 billion people lived in rural areas. Today, half of the planet’s 7 billion people live in cities. We have… [Read More]
CITY GROWTH DRIVERS: YOUTH AND RETIREES?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on May 22nd, 2014 An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal this morning addresses the possibility that urban growth may be slowing, with renewed interest in the suburbs. Two demographics continue to drive Urban growth: the ‘young’ and the ‘old’ either for life-style reasons or to downsize their living arrangements…. [Read More]