Midnight link list

1. “Gen Y/Millennials” want density. Ha! Sucks for them.

2. Mini-bleg: Does anyone know what “building regulations” are preventing this proposed Jackson Heights building from having windows on one side?

3. Southwest DC, before and after highways/urban renewal, in pictures.

4. Overplanning in China.

5. Palm Beach County wants to allow private developers to build along West Palm Beach’s train line and bus stops, but Mayor Lois Frankel wants a sports stadium.

6. St. Louis got money from Obama’s stimulus to hire consulting firms to upzone the city’s dense neighborhoods.

Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith

I graduated Spring 2010 from Georgetown undergrad, with an entirely unrelated and highly regrettable major that might have made a little more sense if I actually wanted to become an international trade lawyer, but which alas seems good for little else.

I still do most of the tweeting for Market Urbanism

Stephen had previously written on urbanism at Forbes.com. Articles Profile; Reason Magazine, and Next City

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7 Comments

  1. 88% of Millennials want urban living? Where did they do this poll, San Francisco?

    As a “Millennial” who has zero desire to live in the ‘burbs myself, I doubt that statistic very much.

    That said, the percentage IS there, even if its not 88%. The desire for some “urban style amenities” and walkability will at least bring this generation more into streetcar suburb style development rather than sprawlburbs.

    • That’s the problem with statistics – most of them are utterly meaningless. In this case, “urban” might mean “not rural” – who knows? Also, the equivalent statistic for the previous generation is not given, which kind of undermines the whole premise of the article.

  2. The story from St. Louis is actually about St. Louis County, the suburbs surrounding the central city (which is its own distinct county).

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