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The Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC) aims to improve the quality of the regional and urban environment by promoting excellence in design, planning, and public policy in the built environment. This will be achieved through its member and public education, in concert with allied community and professional groups. Join us!

2024 Symposium

The 2024 symposium will be held in Indianapolis, IN in November. Stay tuned for dates and location. Registration will open in July.

2023 RUDC Symposium

The RUDC Symposium, held in Washington, DC October 19-20, covered emerging trends, theories, and technologies that are shaping the future of regional and urban design. Watch the engaging highlight and speaker videos >.

Can Boomers save the American Legacy City?

  • 1.  Can Boomers save the American Legacy City?

    Posted 09-13-2016 05:09 PM

    How Legacy Cities Can Profit from Aging Baby Boomers

    As a baby boomer I am used to a marketplace that cares what I want. Now those darn Millennials (my own kids) have taken over as the largest cohort and dictate the market. Cities are competing to get them. What about the boomers

    Of course the real issue is where the "elderly" are supposed to do live. More precisely, what are the offerings?  I was reminded about this question again when I read an article about the Baltimore-area based Erickson Company, which is to elderly living what GM is to automobiles. Both are big entities recovering from spectacular bankruptcies but still setting the tone in the industry without full comprehension of the paradigm shifts. Which nicely ties the dysfunctional dashboards to the prevailing dysfunctional elderly living facilities.

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    How Legacy Cities Can Profit from Aging Baby Boomers

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    How Legacy Cities Can Profit from Aging Baby Boomers
    The population of older people in our country is now becoming so large that strategies of improving existing homes, of incorporating univ...
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    Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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