Summing Up
Almost two-thirds of the inhabitants of the two hundred largest metropolitan areas in the United States reside outside their centers. A number of these centers have become mere shells of their former selves. Meanwhile, the ever-expanding suburbs continue to spread people and jobs so sparsely that at...
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| Published in | Laws of the Landscape p. 88 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Brookings Institution Press
01.04.1999
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Almost two-thirds of the inhabitants of the two hundred largest metropolitan areas in the United States reside outside their centers. A number of these centers have become mere shells of their former selves. Meanwhile, the ever-expanding suburbs continue to spread people and jobs so sparsely that at its current rate the country is turning over fifty acres an hour to exurban development.¹
The outward trek of households and firms from the old cities is hardly new. City planners have been inveighing against it for most of the twentieth century. And for much of that time, their critique has been confused. |
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| ISBN: | 0815760817 9780815760818 |