How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
If urbanization makes people depressed and anxious, why do millennials seem to prefer cities? How does this jive with the "safety in numbers" feeling young people usually use to explain why they want to live in cities?<p>I'm starting to think that the desire to live in cities in our newest generation has been implanted by marketers. Keep humans in a constant state of rushing and anxiety, then quell them with gastropubs and single-origin coffee and other urbane pleasures, in order reinforce a permanent state of discontent. The goal is to have an insatiable working class that will do <i>anything</i> to afford their $1,500/month Brooklyn closet, without realizing that you can be much happier and more relaxed anywhere else.