emergentfutures: Demographic Reversal: Cities Thrive, Suburbs Sputter Last year, for the first time in more than nine decades the major cities of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas grew faster than their combined suburbs. At least temporarily, this puts the brakes on a longstanding staple of American life—the pervasive suburbanization of its population—which began with widespread automobile use in the 1920s to the present day when more than half the U.S. population lives in the suburbs. Full Story: Brookings

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Demographic Reversal: Cities Thrive, Suburbs Sputter

Last year, for the first time in more than nine decades the major cities of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas grew faster than their combined suburbs. At least temporarily, this puts the brakes on a longstanding staple of American life—the pervasive suburbanization of its population—which began with widespread automobile use in the 1920s to the present day when more than half the U.S. population lives in the suburbs.


Full Story: Brookings

Source: emergentfutures

31 July 40 smarterplanet

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