The Rise of Family-Friendly Cities. It's lifestyle, not lattés, that our most productive workers want.
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or much of the past decade, business recruiters, cities and urban developers have focused on the "young and restless," the "creative class," and the so-called "yuspie"—the young urban single professional. Cities, they've said, should capture this so-called "dream demographic" if they wish to inhabit the top tiers of the economic food chain and enjoy the fastest and most sustained growth.
Joel Kotkin
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