2020
"Why cities will flourish in a post-Covid world: Talented young adults are moving to urban neighborhoods"
The movement of talented young adults to dense urban neighborhoods isn’t waning, it is widespread and accelerating, and it is powering urban revival.
Cities continue to be magnets for talented young adults The number of well-educated young adults living in close-in urban neighborhoods is increasing in every large US metropolitan area, and this trend has accelerated in recent years.
...More"Remote Work Forever? Not So Fast, Jobs Guru Says"
The CEO of Adecco, one of the world’s largest employment agencies, discusses the pros and cons of working from home
...More"The Results Are In for Remote Learning: It Didn’t Work"
The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education. Problems piled up quickly. ‘I find it hectic and stressful’
...More"Why Richard Florida worries cities will recover too quickly from Covid"
A Sidewalk Talk Q&A with the urban economist on the challenges of inclusive growth — and the opportunities of urban-tech.
...More"Cities are not dead — they will get younger"
“…Cities have always worked particularly well for young people. They flock to them to build up vital social and professional networks, meet their mates and learn how the world works. Around the world there is massive unmet demand for city homes and workspace…”
...More"What Pool? Safety, Tech And Virtual Tours Are Multifamily’s Newest Lures"
For apartment owners and managers, the pandemic means closed offices, few or no in-person tours and off-limits amenities, obliging them to market their properties without time-tested tools — at least for now.
...More"The Cities We Need"
In the first half of the 20th century, the students at Boston’s best public high school, Boston Latin, included a brash kid named Leonard Bernstein, who would one day compose West Side Story; another boy named Thomas L. Phillips, who would build the Massachusetts manufacturer Raytheon into a bulwark of American defense; and Paul Zoll, who would pioneer the use of electricity to treat cardiac arrest while working as a doctor at a Boston hospital.
...More"Urban Density Is Not an Enemy in the Coronavirus Fight: Evidence from China"
Making a link between a city’s density and its vulnerability to epidemics may seem like an obvious connection. But it may, in fact, be off the mark.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and its spread across the globe, places with high urban population density have seemed to be especially at risk to some observers.
...More"Why Homes in the Bay Area Are Unaffordable"
Instead of new development, we got the Google piñata
Maybe it was the $2,070 bottle of wine. Or the junket to a hot spring in China. Or perhaps it was the John Deere tractor gifted for a vacation home in Colusa County.
...More"San Francisco’s Sky High Commercial Rents Are About To Go Up"
A San Francisco progressive housing group called Todco promoted a ballot proposition which would tie the creation of new office space in the city to construction of new housing. The final tally isn’t in yet but it appears Prop E might pass.
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