Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
With gasoline prices breaking $3 a gallon this month, many New Jerseyans have renewed reason to mourn the steady disappearance of jobs from transit-accessible communities.
A study of New Jersey’s competitiveness released May 2 by the Brookings Institution shows that New Jersey counties boasting some of the nation’s most extensive […]
Census figures show New Jerseyans continue to leave the Garden State in significantly higher numbers than new residents are arriving from other states.
Those moving out between 1990 and 1999 exceeded those moving in from other states by 378,495 – more than the entire population of Mercer County (350,761), or Newark, the state’s largest city (273,546).
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The Metro “A” List
New Jersey’s “principal cities” for the new decade will include the lesser-known cities of Vineland, Millville, Bridgeton and Pleasantville, when last week’s 2000 Census population figures are subjected to new federal standards for naming major metropolitan areas.
A few large suburban centers would also make the Garden State’s “principal cities” list – […]
Suburban Distress
Urban distress is beginning to seep into the suburbs and small towns that border New Jersey’s major cities. Many of these communities have fallen behind the state pace in three important measures: change in per capita income, change in residential value and change in their share of regional employment.
In north Jersey, they include Newark […]
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