Urbanizing suburbia
29/6/10 19:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyEllen Dunham-Jones's TED talk on urbanizing suburbia.
Disregard, if you can, the Obesity Moral Panic!!! because I do think she makes some excellent points.
Disregard, if you can, the Obesity Moral Panic!!! because I do think she makes some excellent points.
For instance, here in Atlanta, about half of households make between $20,000 and $50,000 a year, and they are spending 29% of their income on housing, and 32% on transportation. And that's 2005 figures, that's before we got up to the 4 bucks a gallon.
The two big demographic groups are the baby boomers, retiring... Generation Y hasn't even started hitting child-rearing age. As a result of that, demographers predict that through 2025 75 to 85 percent of new households will not have kids in them.