Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

Name: Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
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ISBN: 9780307272744

ISBN-10: 0307272745

ISBN-13: 9780307272744

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alan Ehrenhalt

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Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, takes us to cities across the country to reveal 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 the implications for the future of our society. How will our nation be changed by the populations shifting in and out of the cities? Why are these shifts taking place? Ehrenhalt answers these and other questions in this illuminating study. He shows us how mass transit has revitalized inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn, New York, while inner suburbs like Cleveland Heights struggle to replace the earlier generation…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Prologue: Trading Places



A Backward Glance



A Neighborhood in Chicago



Re-creation in New York



The New Suburbia



Caught in the Middle



Uneasy Coexistence



The Urban Squeeze



Creating a Downtown



Urbanizing the Suburbs


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


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Index