The nation’s largest generation is transforming cities large and small. This list shows you where their impact is greatest.

By Derek Robert & Tim Henderson @ Politico Magazine, April 26

[....] There’s no denying millennials’ impact. The Brookings Institution has found those born between 1981 and 1997 to be the most ethnically and racially diverse generation to come of age in America thus far, led only by the generation to follow. Millennials recently surpassed Gen X-ers as the largest share of the American workforce, with 56 million either working or looking for work in 2017, according to the Pew Research Center. And, according to Nielsen, they spend more than $65 billion per year. That’s more than the GDP of Lithuania, Luxembourg or Costa Rica.

But there’s another way of looking at this vast and diverse generation that avoids the pitfalls of sneering cliché or parental tut-tutting. Now beginning to reach their peak impact years, millennials are not just a looming wave any longer. They’re remaking society in their own image, transforming a country they’ve already inherited. They’re using new tools and developing new social rules that are quietly reordering the nation’s most pressing problems and reshaping the way we solve them. In a word, millennials are innovating, and the places they’re breaking ground are in the cities they’ve already begun to re-engineer to their unique needs.

Over the next year, POLITICO Magazine will tell this side of the millennials’ story as the next chapter of its award-winning What Works series [....]