Once the American dream : inner-ring suburbs of the metropolitan United States / Bernadette Hanlon.
At one time, a move to the suburbs was the American Dream for many families. However, despite the success of Levittown, NY, impoverished "inner-ring" suburbs-those closest to the urban core of metropolitan cities-like Lansdowne, MD, are in decline. As aging housing stock, foreclosures, sev...
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Philadelphia :
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Once the American dream
- Decline is a new suburban reality
- Defining inner-ring suburbs
- Forces shaping inner-ring suburbs
- Sidestepping inner-ring suburbs
- Declining inner-ring suburbs
- Suburbs in crisis
- Different types of inner-ring suburbs
- Fixing inner-ring suburbs
- Conclusion.