The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 22, 2013 - Political Science - 288 pages

Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future.
 
In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals 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 addresses the implications of these shifts for the future of our society.
 
Ehrenhalt shows us how the commercial canyons of lower Manhattan are becoming residential neighborhoods, and how mass transit has revitalized inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn. He explains why car-dominated cities like Phoenix and Charlotte have sought to build twenty-first-century downtowns from scratch, while sprawling postwar suburbs are seeking to attract young people with their own form of urbanized experience.

 

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Contents

PROLOGUE Trading Places
3
CHAPTER ONE A Backward Glance
22
CHAPTER TWO A Neighborhood in Chicago
41
CHAPTER THREE Recreation in New York
65
CHAPTER FOUR The New Suburbia
91
CHAPTER SEVEN The Urban Squeeze
159
CHAPTER EIGHT Creating a Downtown
183
CHAPTER NINE Urbanizing the Suburbs
205
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Alan Ehrenhalt
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Alan Ehrenhalt
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Alan Ehrenhalt
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About the author (2013)

Alan Ehrenhalt was the executive editor of Governing magazine from 1990 to 2009. He is the author of The United States of Ambition, The Lost City, and Democracy in the Mirror. In 2000, he was the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award for distinguished contributions to the field of political science by a journalist. He lives near Washington, D.C.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
AuthorAlan Ehrenhalt
Editionreprint
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013
ISBN0307474372, 9780307474377
Length288 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
  
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