Issue Of The Week V: The Flight To Suburbia: A Round Trip Phenomenon
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The flight to suburbia – once a one-way trip to escape crime, poor schools, and deteriorating neighborhoods – is now more and more of a roundtrip phenomenon. The landscape of America’s suburbs – once considered safe “controllable” utopias – is changing, with rapid population growth amid growing economic, housing, and educational challenges.
Today, many suburban areas find themselves confronted with the very social and environmental ills of the central and urban core that inspired their birth.
