Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Kristen Jeffers, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Black Urbanist Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley June Williamson, Chair and Associate Professor, Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York Moderator: Diana Lind, Author & Executive Director, Arts & Business Council for Greater Philadelphia 5 Key Takeaways…
Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Daryl J. Carter, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Avanath Capital Management, LLC Leilani Farha, Global Director, The Shift Sacajawea Hall, Operations and CLT Director, Cooperation Jackson Tara Raghuveer, Homes Guarantee Campaign Director, People‘s Action/ Director, KC Tenants Moderator: Ian Volner, Writer, Architecture, Harper‘s, Wall Street Journal 4 Key Takeaways 1. The housing crisis, only accelerated…
Aug 13, 2020
The Millennial generation may be the most consequential for North American cities since the Baby Boomers 75 years ago. They are certainly the most misunderstood. For more than a decade, their lifestyle preferences have been perceived as contrarian compared to their parents, whether that meant living at home, forgoing a driver’s license, or choosing to…
Aug 13, 2020
Albus Brooks is a former two-term Denver City Council member for District 9 and former City Council President. Today, he is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Milender White, a Development and Construction company operating in Colorado and Southern California. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. NewCities: On top of…
Jun 05, 2020
A generation ago many British city centres were dreary places. Now, they are among the most desirable areas to live. What has changed? Take a walk through the centres of Manchester, Liverpool or Birmingham and you will see smart new apartments, office blocks, and ever-present cranes building still more. Until lockdown, at street-level you would…
Jun 05, 2020
There’s been a profound generational shift in attitudes towards urban living. Today’s young adults are much more likely than those of previous decades to choose to live in denser, close-in urban neighborhoods. We traced this trend in our 2014 City Observatory report, the Young and Restless, which found a growing relative preference of well-educated young…
Jun 05, 2020
Not since the rise of the Driverless Car bubble have I seen so many transport experts staring into their crystal balls, peering through the mists at what the future might hold. As COVID19 changes the way we live, work and learn at a speed and scale unprecedented in living memory, it is no surprise that…
Jun 05, 2020
Alfred Degrafinreid II is the associate vice chancellor for community relations for Vanderbilt University. A native Tennessean, Degrafinreid most recently served as the chief administrative officer for the Office of the Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk. Prior to serving the Metro Nashville government, he was counsel to U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-05) and coordinated community…
Jun 05, 2020
Kourtny Garrett serves as President & CEO of Downtown Dallas, Inc. and has been dedicated to the revitalization of Downtown Dallas in various roles since 2002. With a resume spanning 15 years in the development of livable communities, her passion for strong and kinetic city centers carries from Dallas to abroad. Her primary focus of…
Jun 05, 2020
Millennials, members of the diverse generation currently making up nearly a quarter of the U.S. population, are reshaping American society and, with it, commercial real estate. The generation is delaying many of the traditional life stages of young adulthood that were commonplace for baby boomers, including marriage in your twenties and the subsequent purchase of…
Jun 05, 2020
More than 9/11 or the Great Recession, COVID-19 and the associated economic downturn will shape Millennial preferences for years to come. Their intensive use of virtual media necessitated by the health risks may become more ingrained. The counter narrative is that the social distancing imposed by the pandemic will increase their desire for face-to-face communication…
Jun 05, 2020
Large cities of North America have followed a rollercoaster of growth and prosperity for more than 100 years. Decline of their urban cores after 1950 seemed to go hand-in-hand with the rise of the suburbs, but all that reversed—an inversion–with the new millennium. Now economic growth, rising rents and young adults were shifting toward the…
