It's Time for New Jersey to Lose Its Suburban Rep

October 14, 2015

While many politicians have been aware of this for some time, a major wakeup call was sounded last year with a report from the Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Policy and Planning, which showed a massive shift of population away from the suburban ring of towns and toward the stateโ€™s urban core. Some of what authors James W. Hughes, Blousteinโ€™s dean, and Joseph Seneca, an economics professor, called a โ€œseismic shiftโ€ was traced to the millennial generationโ€™s preference for walkable cities with public transportation hubs and entertaining and lively downtowns.

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