The declining school populations in part reflect a wider trend of depopulation of the outer-ring suburbs that is playing out across New Jersey and the Northeastern United States, according to Professor James Hughes, a senior faculty fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. The suburbs, where millennials were born and grew up, provided economic opportunities for their parents but have little to offer today’s 20- and 30-year olds. There are fewer children today than six years ago in almost all of the districts in Hunterdon, Sussex and Warren counties, and those that grow up there don’t want to stay there.
UG Students Explore Climate-Resilient Design at NYC and NJ Waterfront Sites
Students enrolled in Introduction to Urban Planning & Design recently took part in a hands-on field trip to two recently completed waterfront park projects as part of the course's Spring lecture series and experiential learning component. Led by Professor Carmelo...