Description
Generationed City is a research project housed at the University of Waterloo. It studies housing and employment challenges facing different generations. Generationed City is a research project housed in the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Markus Moos founded Generationed City in 2014 as a means to disseminate his research, and that of his students and research assistants, to a broader audience.
Moos is a professor in the School of Planning and co-founder of the Atlas of Suburbanisms. His research mainly deals with the implications of changing urban economies and social structures for urban policy, particularly in the areas of social justice and sustainability.
The current research looks specifically at the housing and employment challenges facing young adults in the US and Canada. If you are between the ages of 18 and 40, please consider completing our survey to help us with the research. generationedcity.uwaterloo.ca/survey/
The overarching aim of this research is to measure the impacts of socio-economic restructuring on the labour and housing market and commuting characteristics of different generations in major Canadian and US metropolitan areas.
Conceptually and methodologically, the research attempts to critically examine and define the utility of youthification, generation, cohort, and generational change as analytical mechanisms, and contribute to advancing our understanding of the factors and processes shaping cities and societal change.
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Teaching Resource
Teachers! We created a teaching resource for your use: workshop on affordable housing for youths. Ideal for grade 11 or 12 social studies, geography or perhaps even economics courses http://generationedcity.uwaterloo.ca/2016/05/19/teaching-resource/ @UW_Unlimited @wrdsb @CanTeachersFed
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