Big City, Big Ideas: A Return to the Core – The Toronto Perspective

On April 22, IMFG and its partners presented the fourth lecture in the "Big City, Big Ideas" series, entitled The Millennials in Cities: the Coming Change in Urban Demographics and Civic Values. Millennials are changing the face of cities. Educated, diverse and tech-savvy, this highly urbanized generation of ‘teens to thirty-somethings’ is expressing a new set of values about how they want to live, work, and play. Yet, their influx into North America’s cities is also surfacing difficult questions about housing affordability, access to employment, gentrification, and race.  As urban demographics and civic values shift, what will  the implications be for North America’s cities?