By Bruce Katz, Robert E. Lang
ISBN-10: 081570884X
ISBN-13: 9780815708841
ISBN-10: 0815708858
ISBN-13: 9780815708858
The early returns from Census 2000 information have made yes proof undeniable: towns and suburbs are becoming extra diversified, the inhabitants is aging and the makeup of families is moving. There are fewer households with childrens, and extra singles and empty-nesters. but neighborhood tendencies muddy the image. groups within the Northeast and Midwest are often becoming slowly, whereas these within the South and West are experiencing explosive progress. a few towns are powerful, others are distressed. a few suburbs are bed room groups, others are scorching employment centres. "Redefining city and Suburban the United States" explores those tendencies and their complexities, besides their implications for the regulations and politics shaping metropolitan the US.
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Rapidly growing satellite cities in the West and South, for example, must work cooperatively with the other cities in their metropolitan areas to cope with issues such as traffic congestion and affordable housing. For those cities in the Northeast and Midwest that continue to lose population, forming coalitions with older suburban areas to stimulate reinvestment and economic development is critical. T A B L E 1 A - 1 . 5 (continued ) Demographic Change in Medium-Sized Cities T A B L E 1 A - 1 .
Louis (3 percent), Cleveland (3 percent), and San Francisco (7 percent) were among those at the bottom. Of the ten downtowns with the highest rates, Chicago and Philadelphia had by far the greatest numbers of homeowners, at 18,181 and 15,608 respectively; half of the group (Lafayette, Denver, Austin, Norfolk, and Charlotte) had approximately 1,000 or fewer owners. Five of the ten downtowns with the lowest homeownership rates had less than 200 homeowners in 2000, with Cincinnati posting just fifteen.
See, for example, Gans (1982); Hartman (1993); Jacobs (1961). 31 Eugenie L. Birch doses of parking, and discontinuous ground-floor retail located along key streets or in the lobbies of major office buildings. Adjacent to the core were warehouses and factories, often abandoned. 2 million-square-foot complex built in 1976 that drained the remaining office, retail, and hotel activities from the surrounding downtown—reflected the devastation. By the late 1990s, the situation began to change, and downtowns throughout the country began to witness something of a renaissance.