Demand and Demographics
Refresh 4 remaining stale category landing pages (architecture, gis, reference, urban): match categories.yaml names/scope, wikilink representative articles; fix gis's false 'placeholder' claim (9 substantive articles already exist)
@@ -1,23 +1,26 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "Urban" title: "Why Places Grow" slug: urban category: urban type: topic content_type: topic quality: complete short_description: "Demographic, mobility, and economic forces shaping commercial real estate demand at city and regional scale: commuter patterns, urban fringe dynamics, gateway city characteristics, and trade area definition." short_description: "The city-scale forces behind demand: commuters, the urban fringe, demographics, and parking, and the co-location archetypes and standards they drive." status: active bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC last_edited: 2026-06-26 last_edited: 2026-07-04 editor: pointsav-engineering paired_with: _index.es.md --- Urban covers the demographic, mobility, and economic forces that shape commercial real estate demand at the city and regional scale. Articles in this category address commuter patterns, population distribution, urban fringe dynamics, gateway city characteristics, and the relationship between demographic concentration and commercial anchor demand. Understanding urban context informs site evaluation at every scale, from metropolitan trade area definition to individual block-level analysis. Why Places Grow covers the city-scale forces behind demand. [[commuter|Commuter (PKS)]] and [[urban-fringe|Urban Fringe (VWH)]] are two of the three Location Intelligence co-location archetypes — transit-adjacent sites with significant parking, and large-format retail and distribution-industrial activity on the metropolitan periphery, respectively. [[optimum-mosaic-demographic-profiling|Optimum Mosaic demographic profiling]] and [[regional-market-demographic-threshold|the Regional Market demographic threshold]] cover the population signals that separate a qualifying market from a local-serving community, and [[parking-ratio-standards|parking ratio standards]] set the stall-per-square-foot requirement every site must meet before construction.