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Kid-Friendly Cities Making Headlines
January 17, 2008
Posted by: Carol
The emerging trend of young people choosing to raise their kids in cities and what urban leaders are doing to encourage it is the topic of a story in today’s USA Today. It features the findings of the recent CEOs for Cities study as well as comment from members including Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic and Paul Levy of Philadelphia. Read the full story here.
BC Planning, January 17, 2008
This is interesting, especially in Philadelphia's case. The city has spent the last 10-15 years trying make their downtown cool and hip and for the msot part, I think they have suceeded. My only issue is as these neighborhoods gentrify, will certain public schools have better services then schools system wide? I've seen this in University City in Philadelphia where school boundaries became a major issue. Kids of long time residnets were pushed into an older, lower performing school while kids of younger parents who just came into the city were placed into a newer and higher performing school.
Link: http://bcplanningblog.blogspot.com