Philadelphia's Center City District continues to innovate when it comes to retaining the young talent the city has worked so hard to attract by making the core appealing to that same talent once they couple and have kids.  Today the Center City District launched a new website, KidsinCenterCity.com,…

Entrepreneurs are capitalizing on the natural advantages cities offer to kids.  Urban Baby Tours, highlighted in this Pop City article, offers walking tours that explore all the city of Pittsburgh has to offer for parents and their little ones.  What a great ambassador for downtown family…

First, it was the joys of less stuff.  Are we evolving now to the joys of less space?

There is something I love about this true story from a young Vancouver family of four living in a 950 square foot condo.  Having grown up in a two bedroom house and…

Traveling around San Francisco over the weekend, I noticed that every cool coffee shop was surrounded by babies and strollers.  (And many of the strollers were doubles.)  Surely, urban leaders are seeing this new baby boom and planning to keep these young families in their cities, right? 

Wrong, according to…

You know all that talk about today's new Baby Boom?  Think again.  The percentage of American households with children under 18 living at home last year -- 46% hit the lowest point in 50 years.  Last year, about 35.7 million families had children under 18 at home.  The percentage peaked…

CABE and English Heritage have collaborated to release a new site that helps teachers “exploit the world’s biggest teaching resource” by providing resources, suggestions and information on learning “through the whole built environment, from grand historic buildings to the streets and neighbourhoods where we live”.  It also connects…

NYT notes the demographic changes brought on by NYC's renaissance. 

Since 2000, the number of young children living in parts of Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. The poverty rate declined in all but one New York City neighborhood. A majority of Bronx residents are…

Greg Hinz, over at Crain's Chicago, produced a terrific column on the impact of having our first urban president in too many years.

But in it he also made some interesting observations about the ways city life is different and how it is changing:

"City folks are, well, different.…

Karrie Jacobs, who writes for Metropolis, has a great photo on her blog with this caption:  In front of the WWII Memorial in downtown Brooklyn, city dwellers play with their children just like suburbanites and exurbanites. Those of us who live in cities are authentic Americans, too.

I can…

Check out Time Out Kids New York for the places parents like to head out for a drink (and bring the kids with them). This is no short list either - there are 22 restaurants, bars and bistros described here. Whether or not you think kids ought to be…

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…