http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/08/04/the-great-inversion/ The source on how we live, work and play Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/08/04/the-great-inversion/comment-page-1/#comment-4891 Zoe B Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:35:33 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=1943#comment-4891 The blog comments to this article are worth reading. Of particular interest to me, there was discussion of whether families with children want to live in the urban core. We generally assume that they don't. But at least a few cities do have families returning to downtown. Apparently one limiting factor is the size of available residences. Families will move downtown if they can find apartments large enough to house several children. Or if they limit themselves to only 1 or 2 kids. When they do move in, they can change the neighborhood. In particular, they can kill the nightlife by complaining about noise and litter. The blog comments to this article are worth reading. Of particular interest to me, there was discussion of whether families with children want to live in the urban core. We generally assume that they don’t. But at least a few cities do have families returning to downtown. Apparently one limiting factor is the size of available residences. Families will move downtown if they can find apartments large enough to house several children. Or if they limit themselves to only 1 or 2 kids. When they do move in, they can change the neighborhood. In particular, they can kill the nightlife by complaining about noise and litter.

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