Monday Mailing
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When It Comes to Broadband, Millennials Vote with Their Feet Why Millennials Are About to Leave Cities in Droves Have U.S. Cities Reached 'Peak Millennial'? A Grass-Roots Movement for Healthy Soil Spreads Among Farmers Acquitted, Convicted, Fined or Free: After the Oregon Standoff Can This Affordable 3-D Printed House Address the World’s Housing Shortage? Is Inclusionary Zoning Creating Less Affordable Housing? New Website is Latest Piece in the Carfree Columbia Gorge Puzzle Free Online Workshop – How to Build a Thriving Nonprofit, Runs April 16-26 How to Design an Emotionally Intelligent PowerPoint Presentation Federal Funding Announcements
1. When It Comes to Broadband, Millennials Vote with Their Feet Cities are the future and the countryside is doomed, as far as population growth, jobs, culture and lifestyle are concerned. Right? Certainly, that is the mainstream view expressed by analysts at organizations such as Brookings. This type of analysis says the “clustering” of business that occurred during the industrial age will only accelerate as the digital economy takes hold. This argument says digital economies will only deepen and accelerate the competitive advantage that cities have always had in modern times. Quote of the Week: “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of the one who sees.” ~Rumi Oregon Fast Fact: The State of Oregon is approximately 350 miles from east to west. Also, from north to south, which is from Washington to California, it is between 250 and 300 miles.
But other pundits and researchers argue that the digital age will result in “decentralization” and a more level playing field between urban and rural. Digital technologies are insensitive to location and distance and potentially offer workers a much greater range of opportunities than ever before. To access the full story, click here. 2. Why Millennials Are About to Leave Cities in Droves As businesses and governments have struggled to understand the so-called millennials—born between roughly 1980 and 2000—one frequent conclusion has been that they have a unique love of cities. A deep-seated preference for night life and subways, the thinking goes, has driven the revitalization of urban cores across the U.S. over the last decade-plus, and permanently reshaped the patterns of American life. But there’s mounting evidence that millennials’ love of cities was a passing fling that became a shotgun wedding thanks to the Great Recession. Millennials don’t love cities any more than previous generations, the counterargument goes—they’ve just been stuck there longer, pining for the suburbs all the while. To access the full story, click here.
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