Confronting Suburban Decline: Strategic Planning for Metropolitan Renewal

Confronting Suburban Decline: Strategic Planning for Metropolitan Renewal

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Sprawling commercial and residential development in outer suburbs and exurban areas has for a number of years masked increasingly severe socioeconomic problems in suburban America. In recent decades, income declines, crime increases, and tax base erosion have affected many suburbs to an extent previously seen only in central cities.

In Confronting Suburban Decline, William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips examine conditions and trends in cities and suburbs since 1960, arguing that beginning in the 1980s, the United States entered a "post-suburban" era of declining suburbs with maturation of communities accompanied by large-scale deterioration. The authors examine:

• why suburban decline has become widespread
• how the "tyranny of easy development decisions" often results in new housing being built outside of areas that people prefer
• how strategic planning can help assess dangers
• how some suburbs have stabilized or revived
• how interactions between residential mobility and the age, size, and location of housing can help policy makers anticipate dangers and opportunities facing neighborhoods and jurisdictions

In-depth case studies are provided of Richmond, Virginia and Washington, D.C., along with examples from Minnesota, Oregon, Maryland, Tennessee, and other locations. In addition, the book offers information and statistics on income, population, and racial transitions in 554 suburbs in the nation's twenty-four largest metropolitan areas.

Confronting Suburban Decline provides a detailed look at the causes of and responses to urban and suburban decline. Planners and policymakers as well as students and researchers involved with issues of land use, economic development, regional planning, community development, or intergovernmental relations will find it a valuable resource.

Confronting Suburban Decline: Strategic Planning for Metropolitan Renewal,William H. Lucy,David L. Phillips,Island Press,1559637706,Architecture,Case studies,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Metropolitan areas,Planning,Political Science,Politics - Current Events,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,Public Policy - Regional Planning,Social Situations And Conditions,Suburbs,United States,Urban Planning,Urban policy

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