A timely article on the decline of the suburbs and return to the cities in
the Atlantic Monthly:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime
The trends discussed by Christopher Leinberger in the following article from
The Atlantic Monthly have been apparent in the older suburban areas of many
American cities for the past two decades. In some Rust Belt cities entire
blocks of the suburban fringe are disappearing under weeds and brush as the
houses are abandoned deteriorate and either burn, collapse or are simply
demolished as public safety hazards.
Christopher B. Leinberger is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution,
a professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan, and a real-estate
developer. His most recent book, The Option of Urbanism, was published by
Island Press in November.
Of course the cities experiencing a renaissance as a result of the
re-awakening amongst Americans of the benefits of urban life and environmental
paybacks also have the progressive zoning regulations necessary to permit the
renaissance, something sorely lacking throughout Ithaca and Tompkins County.
George
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