Detroit, once a thriving industrial powerhouse known as the Motor City, has faced decades of decline that led it to be labeled the worst city in America. This video explores the complex history behind ...

Suburban constellations — the different forms that suburbanization can take — have increasingly replaced the assumed dichotomies of city and suburb. What is happening behind North America’s ...

Bartik and Evan Mast, economists at the University of Illinois and Notre Dame, wrote in their 2021 paper “Black Suburbanization: Causes and Consequences of a Transformation of American Cities.” ...

But what is called urban sprawl, or more properly suburbanization, is really the result of an increasing population, a growing economy, and rising incomes. Suburbanization is synonymous with growth.

Suffering from a lack of tax revenue, city neighborhoods fell into further disrepair as a result of suburbanization. In the 1950s and 1960s, freeway construction and urban renewal efforts resulted in ...

Harrington wouldn’t have seen the suburbanization of skid row. Why do you think poverty is so invisible, even though it is often right in plain sight? The lives the poor live are so separate ...

examines how suburbanization -- made possible largely due to the prevalence of automobiles and the extensive U.S. highway system -- impacts the number of miles we drive, our reliance on petroleum ...

The suburbanization of America is not new, but a report from the real-estate website Trulia suggests that dramatic drops in home prices could be opening the way for buyers to find homes on their ...

It concerns the changing relationships between place and poverty, and the increasing suburbanization of poverty. He gave a nice interview on CSPAN Book TV. More here. Sign up below to get the ...

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The country requires planned suburbanization to deal with the pressure of urbanization and subsequent transport requirements, said Kamal Nath, minister for urban development. The minister also ...