Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Young people

Your Photo of Kiddies in Cities Could Win a Breezer Bike

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2013 | 1 Comment

Have you sent in your submissions to our Back-to-School photo contest yet? You haven’t, have you? Of course not. You were holding out to see what these supposedly fabulous prizes consist of. Well, listen up people: When we promise fabulous, we deliver fabulous. Breezer is offering two stylish and fun Downtown EX bikes for the […]

Stop Fretting About Whether Millennials Will Stay in the City

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 28, 2013 | No Comments

More than 9,000 babies have been born in each of the last five years in Washington, DC — but will their families stay in the city as these kids grow up? A recent study by the real estate company Trulia found that there was just one zip code in DC’s city limits where backpacks outnumbered […]

Photo Contest: Send Us Your Pictures of Kids on City Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 27, 2013 | 6 Comments

Two weeks ago, I posted some thoughts on raising kids in cities and right away, the comments section and Twitter lit up with a fruitful discussion of urban and car-lite parenting. The staff at Streetsblog and our partners at the Alliance for Biking & Walking love to see kids riding red wagons to day care, […]

Crawlable Urbanism: Cities Are for Kids, Too

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 13, 2013 | 143 Comments

All of a sudden, I feel like all anyone is talking about is whether it’s a good idea to raise kids in the city. I’m raising a kid in the city. I feel great about it when she has a blast on the back of the bike, or makes friends on the bus, or gets […]

From Bust to Boom: Rental Housing Takes Off in Madison

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 19, 2013 | 5 Comments

Madison, Wisconsin, is on a building binge. Developers are constructing so much rental housing that market observers fear that the housing shortage could quickly turn into a glut. One thousand units were approved last year for large apartment complexes. There’s a reason behind all this building, according to an article in yesterday’s Isthmus: Young professionals, […]

Ford Still Trying to Get Millennials to Like Them

By Tanya Snyder | May 31, 2013 | 25 Comments

Poor Ford. They’re trying so hard. They’re like the Cassandra of the car world, foretelling the future of less driving, more transportation options, a preference for car-lite urban living. They’ve been re-designing their Mustang to appeal to younger folks and stressing their move away from cars and toward “mobility opportunities” (like driving cars). And now […]

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