Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes
8th September 2013
Whichever side of this issue you’re on, it’s clear that we’re looking at a reversal of the historical norm: The workers that used to live in residential suburbs while commuting to work in the city are now living in the city, while the largest technology companies are based in the suburbs and increasingly draw their labor supply from dense urban neighborhoods.
Imagine companies in Connecticut running special shuttle buses to bring their young hip employees from Manhattan and Brooklyn, where they’d all rather live than boring old Connecticut.