{"id":14,"date":"2011-01-17T23:23:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-01-17T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:25:00","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-for-mcmansions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-mcmansions\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning of the end for McMansions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/realestate.yahoo.com\/promo\/no-mcmansions-for-millennials.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports on Generation Y:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They want to walk everywhere. [&#8230;]\u00c2\u00a0A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One-third are willing to pay for the ability to walk,&#8221; Ms. Duggal said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want to be in a cookie-cutter type of development. &#8230;The suburbs will need to evolve to be attractive to Gen Y.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen it happening more and more: the isolationist model created by the expansive suburban lifestyle is just not as appealing to Generation Y. \u00c2\u00a0People seek stronger community, are more interested in sharing resources, and don&#8217;t want the hassles of owning and maintaining huge houses.<\/p>\n<p>The problem we&#8217;re facing now is, with 88% wanting to be in an urban setting, how do our urban environments accommodate this new (rather demanding) demographic, and what becomes of suburbs and exurbs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports on Generation Y: They want to walk everywhere. [&#8230;]\u00c2\u00a0A whopping 88% want to be in an urban setting [&#8230;] &#8220;One-third are willing to pay for the ability to walk,&#8221; Ms. Duggal said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want to be in a cookie-cutter type of development. &#8230;The suburbs will need to evolve to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nextransit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}