The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt
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.Alan Ehrenhalt is executive editor of Governing magazine. Prior to joining Governing, his professional career included stints with the Associated Press, Washington Star, and Congressional Quarterly. He is the author of Democracy in the Mirror (1998), The Lost City (1995), and The United States of Ambition (1991). He served as editor of the first four editions (1982-88) of Politics in America, a biennial reference book profiling all 535 members of Congress and their districts. Mr. Ehrenhalt is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors and has written frequently for the New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, and the New Republic. In 2000, he was the winner of the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams award for distinguished contributions to the field of political science by a journalist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307272744 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307272745 |
| Title | The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City |
| Author | Alan Ehrenhalt |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2012-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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