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.
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Urban
17 posts
Giving Up on Urban Neighborhoods
Many of the efforts made to resuscitate dying cities aren't concerned with dying neighborhoods. Sometimes it's easier to just amputate the limbs to save the body.
The Ever-Evolving Difficulties of Giving Housing to the Homeless
First introduced in 1992, the Housing First model suggested that we fight homelessness by first giving the homeless a place to live. Twenty-four years later, the study of a program in Hamilton, Ontario, sheds some light on how the system is working today.
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.)
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial City
As long as talented people born in different places are coming together, even the Orkney Islands can be an innovation hub.
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.