The great millennial migration that wasn’t

Despite the much-trumpeted resurgence of American cities in recent years, around 70 percent of Americans live in suburbs, and about the same proportion of the population in Canada and Australia, which adopted similar approaches to postwar urban planning. In Europe, with its medieval street layouts, greater population densities, higher land prices,

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Ever since I started working on this article, a chart has been haunting me. It plots the percentage of people living alone in a country against that nation’s GDP. There’s a strong correlation. Nations where a fifth of the people live alone, like Denmark and Finland, are a lot richer than nations where almost no one lives alone, like the ones in Lat... See more

Young people do not degenerate; this occurs only after grown men have already become corrupt,” wrote Montesquieu in the eighteenth century.1 Our children may take this statement to heart when they find that their elders are leaving them with a poorer future. Three-quarters of American adults today are not confident that their children will be bette

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As the globetrotting Airbnb generation that’s increasingly susceptible to income, housing and job insecurity, millennials are perhaps the first generation to embody a sense of placelessness.