Young Adults

Moving Truck

U.S. Migration Reaches 72-Year Low

Staying in place is more and more the norm, even among historically mobile young people.

November 26, 2019 - Brookings

Young Family

Debunking the 'Millennials Are Fleeing Cities' Narrative

One of the most-read stories in the urbanism world last week was a Wall Street Journal article about young people between the ages of 25 to 39 leaving the largest U.S. cities. Not so fast with all that, says Jose Cortright.

October 7, 2019 - City Observatory

Young Crowd

Millennials Leaving the Big City

New York City continues to lose young adults between the ages of 25 and 39, but it isn't the only city seeing a net out-migration of Millennials and younger Generation Xers.

October 2, 2019 - Crain's New York Business

Domestic Millennial

More 20-Somethings Living With Their Parents Than Any Year Since the 1940s

Is this the future that Baby Boomers envisioned?

April 12, 2018 - Quartz

Young Adults are Finally Leaving the Nest

The improving job market and low mortgage rates have enabled more adults in their 20s and early 30s to move into their own apartments and to buy homes, which, says Don Lee, could boost the nation's broader economic recovery.

December 11, 2012 - The Los Angeles Times

For DC: Out with the Old, In with the Young

New census data reveals that at the same time Washington D.C. drew a record number of young adults, those over 55 left the city in large numbers. As a result, over the past three years, the city's median age has fallen by a full six months.

October 26, 2012 - The Washington Post

FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.

Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold

The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.

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