The Future of the Suburbs

This method allows the structure and growth of Canada’s 34 metropolitan areas to be compared1 and allows nationwide estimates of the size of the suburban population. [...] These cities lack the fiscal capacity to simultaneously deal with the expense of extending infrastructure to low-density suburbs on the urban fringe and to reverse the decline of downtown neighbourhoods. [...] And there are significant chunks of the city which aren’t as accessible and there are buses which come every 45 minutes… and that does prevent me from … having employment.” Similar sentiments were expressed by many young suburbanites in the study, a group that is often left out of the conversation regarding the future of suburban mobility and policy (Pitter and Lorinc 2016). [...] I said no to that job because of (the) $7 I’m going to pay in the morning; $7 in the afternoon; and plus I have to wait for (the) bus (for) 40 minutes.” BUILDING THE SUBURB OF THE FUTURE Our brief snapshot of two samples of young adults’ housing and transportation patterns shows that while young adults continue to reside in suburbs, many of them express distinct preferences for urban ways of livin [...] The preferences for proximity to transit, connectivity among suburban areas, affordable transit, and the ability to walk or cycle ought to be increasingly important considerations in designing the suburb of the future (Moos and Walter-Joseph 2017).