America's Top-Rated Cities 2007
America's Top-Rated Cities 2007

Author: David Garoogian

Publisher:

Published: 2007-04

Total Pages: 898

ISBN-13: 9781592371853

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America's Top-Rated Cities is a four-volume set, each book covering a specific region of the United States - Southern, Western, Central, and Eastern. Each volume includes statistical information and other data in one easy-to-use source on cities which have been cited in various magazine surveys as being the best places for business and living. Book jacket.

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

Author: Alan Ehrenhalt

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-01-22

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307474372

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Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future. In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America’s cities and suburbs are changing places—young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are moving out—and addresses the implications of these shifts for the future of our society. Ehrenhalt shows us how the commercial canyons of lower Manhattan are becoming residential neighborhoods, and how mass transit has revitalized inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn. He explains why car-dominated cities like Phoenix and Charlotte have sought to build twenty-first-century downtowns from scratch, while sprawling postwar suburbs are seeking to attract young people with their own form of urbanized experience.