National: Experts Say Dynamic Cities Key to Future
April 19, 2011|Kansas City Star
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Vibrant, dynamic cities hold mankind's best hope for the future despite chronic problems with housing, transportation and crumbling services, some big names in public policy told a national gathering of land-use journalists. "Cities have never had more intensity, more magnetism," said Adrian Fenty, former mayor of Washington, D.C., on Friday at Harvard University. However, "nowhere have (economic) problems been seen more than at the city level."... Read On
National: Young and the Restless Report
April 19, 2011|CEOs for Cities
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CEOs for Cities' newest report, The Young and the Restless, showed immense growth in the population of 24-35 year olds with a college degree, the most mobile people in America, in cities across the country... Read On
Blogosphere: Cox-Kotkin - Fastest Growing Cities
April 18, 2011|New Geography
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Over the past decade urbanists, journalists and politicians have hotly debated where Americans were settling and what places were growing the fastest. With the final results in from the 2010 Census, we can now answer those questions, with at least some clarity... Read On
Blogosphere: Dudes with No Dates in China
April 18, 2011|Environmental and Urban Economics
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China's Urban marriage market is taking some predictable turns as young women are in scarce supply. This article argues that the young women have the bargaining power and they want to date a man with a car and his own apartment... Read On
Blogosphere: Rings of Population Change
April 15, 2011|Austin Contrarian
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From Stephen Von Worley at Data Pointed (via Flowing Data), maps of block-by-block population changes from 2000 and 2010 for a bunch of American cities. They show that growth continues to occur mostly at the fringe of cities, which is hardly surprising... Read On
Blogosphere: Know Your Demographic, Audience
April 12, 2011|Mass Transit Magazine
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At a recent show someone was flipping through last year's issue of our Top 40 Under 40 and asked when we were going to have a top 50 over 50. Since we first started doing the Top 40 a couple years ago, it's a joke we hear often... Read On
Blogosphere: Census Shows Challenge of Children
April 8, 2011|The New Republic
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Our children are our future, as the cliché goes, but the new Census 2010 results emphasize the truth in the expression. Substantial changes are occurring in our child population, and the changes are not uniform across the country... Read On
Blogosphere: Growth in A Dense Neighborhood
April 8, 2011|Austin Contrarian
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West Campus grew like gangbusters between 2000 and 2010. I've tried to convey how remarkable this growth truly was. In 2000, tracts 6.03 and 6.04 had 5,273 and 5,199 inhabitants, respectively... Read On
Research: Geography Through Surnames in Britain
April 7, 2011|Science Direct
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This paper undertakes the largest ever quantitative analysis of the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, in order to identify 'surname regions'. Our empirical analysis uses hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling in a computationally intensive analysis of a near complete individual population register of Great Britain...
Blogosphere: More on Census and Center Cities
April 7, 2011|Urban Places and Spaces
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The Post got around to doing another story about center city population increases/declines, pointing out the fact that most of this is generated by inflows of Hispanics and Asians. See "Without influxes of Hispanics and Asians, some U.S. cities would be smaller."... Read On
