The Metro: How American cities stopped making room for teenagers
Pete Saunders joins the show to talk about how a lack of investment in recreation for teenagers factors into viral “teen takeovers” in Detroit and across the country.
Detroit teenagers have been gathering in large numbers downtown over the past few weeks.
On its face, there’s a simple explanation: as the weather warms up, teens are looking for somewhere to be. But there was a time when Detroit teenagers already had those places. So what happened to them?
Pete Saunders, an urban planner and publisher of the Substack The Corner Side Yard, thinks these gatherings are signaling something deeper about how American culture changed. He joined the show to discuss why these teen gatherings are happening across the U.S.
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