The Communities Where Aging Populations Can Never Retire
Areas like Michigan's Alcona County offer a lesson for rural communities across the country that need to find a way to function with an aging population.
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Satellites Could Revolutionize the Way Governments Monitor Rural Development
In many countries, national well-being is often monitored through on-the-ground household surveys, but new technology could change that.
Meet the People Who Don’t Use the Internet
They stay in touch via the postal system, landlines, and pizza dinners.
The Death of Urbanization in the United States
We continue to confuse population change with net domestic migration. Over the last 20 years, the U.S. has become increasingly rural even as many of its cities have grown.
Quality of Place and Migration
People vote with their feet. The regions with the best retention should be the regions with the best quality of place.
Is Your City Making You Crazy?
Anxiety, mood disorders, and a heightened risk of developing schizophrenia: The psychological problems with urban living. (And some ways to potentially avoid them.)
Why Your Big Move to the Big City May Be Your Last
A new pair of studies helps to explain why city-dwellers seem to fall deeper in love with the urban environment the longer they spend there.