Youthification across the metropolitan system: Intra-urban residential geographies of young adults in North American metropolitan areas

Moos, Markus; Filion, Pierre; Quick, Matthew; Walter-Joseph, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.017

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“…We expect municipal pull factors to increasingly drive and concentrate young adults' demand for both rented and owned housing. A large body of literature demonstrates that larger cities increasingly attract and retain young adults, given the presence of higher education, stronger labour prospects, and a wide range of amenities (Florida, 2008;Glaeser, 2011;Moos et al, 2019). On the one hand, these factors especially attract highly educated and higher income young adults (Venhorst et al, 2011), which may be associated with higher young adult homeownership.…”

Section: Housing Market Competition Factorsmentioning

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The unequal geography of declining young adult homeownership: Divides across age, class, and space

Hochstenbach

Arundel

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

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Section: Housing Market Competition Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The unequal geography of declining young adult homeownership: Divides across age, class, and space

Hochstenbach

Arundel

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…That migration to the urban core remains net negative contradicts the dominant "back to the city" narrative. Clearly youth are occupying urban centers (Moos et al 2019;Cortright 2020), but other cohorts are not. 6 Over time, cumulative lost wages are likely to exacerbate both economic and exclusionary displacement, as households can no longer afford to live in the urban core.…”

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COVID-19 and the Future of Urban Life

Li¹,

Yedavalli²,

Xie³

et al. 2022

Planning Journal

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hosted a colloquium series at which faculty and graduate students presented their work related to COVID-19. The discussion spanned a wide range of topics around urban form, economic productivity, design, food justice, housing and displacement, political movement, and social control both in the context of countries in the Global South and the U.S. This White Paper contains six essays originated from the colloquium, each bringing a unique vision of how the COVID-19 pandemic is currently shaping and will continue to shape our cities in the future and what lessons we can learn from it.The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unimaginable adversity, with nations across the globe devising ways to cope with the loss of life, economic productivity, and social fabric. Due to the agnostic nature of the virus, no facet of society, whether in the Global North or South, has been left untouched. As beacons of economic and social agglomeration, the pre-pandemic city, in particular, has seen a rapid transformation, in often unforeseen directions. Local businesses have shuttered, while large technology companies have thrived; offices have closed, while their adjacent streets have been opened for active mobility and social activities; apartment rents have decreased, while single-family home prices have increased; the underprivileged have been adversely affected by both the virus as well as the economic reality of the pandemic, while the affluent have been largely untouched in both health and economy. Responses to COVID-19 in various nations have only exacerbated existing socioeconomic inequities, and, expectedly, not all federal, state, or local responses have been beneficial to all strata of society. This white paper focuses on several core themes that have evolved over the course of the pandemic and have behaved differently across geographies: (1) urban economics and equity (2) social and economic power dynamics, and (3) strategies to preserve urban social and economic systems.The first two essays, by assistant professor Sai Balakrishnan and doctoral student Liubing Xie, initiate the conversation with two cases in the Global South, India and China, respectively. Balakrishnan's piece brings attention to the issue of global urban inequality revealed by COVID-19 through India's agrarian-urban spatial rift, as well as the undocumented farm workers essential to the food supply chain in the U.S., while Xie's essay illustrates the practice of mobility control and community surveillance in Beijing as a means to contain the virus. In the following essay, Professor Karen Chapple, Chair of City and Regional Planning, examines the potential residential and business displacements and replacements due to COVID-19, arguing that despite the heuristic narrative of inner-city resurgence by knowledge workers, it will likely strengthen the existing trends of urban inequality and displacement. The next essay by Zachary Lamb, assistant professor in DCRP, describes the 'resident-owned communities' (ROC) co-ops' responses to COVID-19 and shows that the social ...

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“…Almost all 'transnational gentrifiers' are within this same age group (Lo´pez-Gay et al, 2021). The inflow of those populations may therefore contribute to cities' 'youthification' (Moos et al, 2019) and counterbalance the ageing of the permanent inhabitants.…”

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Temporary populations and sociospatial polarisation in the short-term city

Brollo

Celata

2022

Urban Studies

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Temporary populations – tourists, temporary stayers, non-resident students – constitute a substantial share of many cities’ inhabitants. Their implications are normally the object of separate research, about over tourism, studentification, transnational gentrification. When viewed from the perspective of the sociospatial relations those populations have in and with the city, many similarities emerge in their urban practices, socio economic characteristics, locational and housing preferences. The paper aims to contribute to recent attempts to avoid traditional categorisations and investigate jointly how the inflow of temporary inhabitants produces effects at the urban and sub-urban scales. The COVID-19 pandemic will then be used as a natural experiment to estimate how they distribute in the city of Rome, Italy, which is crucial to a better understanding of their impact. Temporary populations, we argue, are a very visible source of both hard and soft urban changes, and a major driver of not only neighbourhood change but sociospatial polarisation at the whole city scale. The pandemic also offers an occasion to see how dependent cities are on temporary inhabitants and to reflect upon the ambivalence in how they see those populations as either a gain or a burden, something they struggle to attract or as a source of tensions and opposition.

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Youthification across the metropolitan system: Intra-urban residential geographies of young adults in North American metropolitan areas

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

The unequal geography of declining young adult homeownership: Divides across age, class, and space

The unequal geography of declining young adult homeownership: Divides across age, class, and space

COVID-19 and the Future of Urban Life

Temporary populations and sociospatial polarisation in the short-term city

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