@article{448598,
      recid = {448598},
      author = {Ehrenhalt, Alan,},
      title = {The great inversion and the future of the American city /},
      publisher = {Knopf,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {276 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      note = {"This is a Borzoi book."},
      abstract = {"Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, takes  us to cities across the country to reveal 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 the implications  for the future of our society. How will our nation be  changed by the populations shifting in and out of the  cities? Why are these shifts taking place? Ehrenhalt  answers these and other questions in this illuminating  study. He shows us how mass transit has revitalized  inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn, New York,  while inner suburbs like Cleveland Heights struggle to  replace the earlier generation of affluent tax-paying  residents who left for more distant suburbs; how the sprawl  of Phoenix has frustrated attempts to create downtown  retail spaces that can attract large crowds; and how  numerous suburban communities have created downtown areas  to appeal to the increasing demand for walkable commercial  zones. Finally, he explains what cities need to do to keep  the affluent and educated attracted to and satisfied with  downtown life. An eye-opening and thoroughly engaging look  at American urban/suburban society and its future"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/448598},
}