Once the American dream : inner-ring suburbs of the metropolitan United States / Bernadette Hanlon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanlon, Bernadette, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--United States.

Suburbs.

Suburbs--Economic aspects--United States.

Suburban life--United States.

Suburban life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, severe fiscal problems, slow population growth, increasing poverty, and struggling local economies affect inner-ring suburbs, what can be done to save them?Once the American Dream analyzes this downward trend, examining 5,000 suburbs across 100 different metropolitan areas and census regions in 1980

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612423727

9781282423725

128242372X

9781592139385

1592139388

OCLC:

607552542