Marketing Central City Residence to an Aging Baby Boom: The Transportation Angle

This paper proposes that the aging baby boom will contribute significantly to transportation problems in the future because 1) current land use patterns necessitate dependence on cars; and 2) aging baby boom women will drive more than elderly women do now. Policies that promote central city residence by stressing the transportation advantages of high-density living, therefore, should have particular appeal to baby boom women seeking prolonged independence. Such policies would also serve the interests of localities by reducing traffic congestion, pollution, and further sprawl. We suggest that a combination of direct and indirect housing policies comparable to those that financed suburbanization fifty years ago (i.e. urban renewal, highway construction, and veterans\u27 benefits) could be implemented over the next twenty years to recentralize population by addressing the transportation needs of aging baby boomers

Gendered Spaces

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THE EFFECTS OF INTRAMETROPOLITAN MOBILITY ON RACIAL RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION

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Panel I: Feminism: Now and Then

Explore and contextualize the dynamic histories and discourses of feminism over the past 40 years as broad and complex spheres of action across professional and social realms. PanelistsSherry Ahrentzen, PhD, DPACSA, Shimberg Professor of Housing Studies, University of Florida Mary McLeod, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Andrea Merrett, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University Daphne Spain, James M. Page Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture, University of Virginia Moderator Mary McLeod, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Eric Mumford, PhD, Professor of Architecture, Washington Universit