Magazine
Issue 11: Suburbs
Summer 2006
In our eleventh issue, Robert Lang and Edward Blakely search for the real OC, but what they find looks very different from TV’s The OC. Leading thinkers in this issue argue that the suburbs - often overlooked and misunderstood by other scholars and the public - are not only incredibly dynamic and economically important, but also home to an unexpected group of people: young singles, minorities, seniors and others who normally choose to live in cities. Robert Bruegmann, Joel Kotkin, and others explain why understanding the suburbs are critical to the country’s future.
Features
- Web Exclusive
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): Changing the Faces of Cities
- In Search of the Real OC
Exploring the State of American Suburbs
- Suburbia
Homeland of the American Future
- Farming on the Fringe
Can Tax Incentives Save California’s Farmlands?
- When a Cheap House Isn’t a Bargain
A New Index Factors Transportation Costs into Home-buying Decisions
- Exurbanization and Gentrification
How the Two Patterns Have Been Linked Since the Beginning of Urban History
- Re-Designing Education
Philadelphia’s Charter High School for Architecture and Design
- The Pros and Cons of Philadelphia’s Business Improvement Districts
- Gambling on Philadelphia’s Future
Can Casinos Fit into a Big City Downtown?
- The Cultural Contradictions of the Creative Age
Departments
- Culture: Toronto as a Canvas
The Conflict over Street Art
- Environment: Greening the Rustbelt
- Communities: A New Dynamic
Atlantic Yards Challenges Brooklyn Progressive Politics
- Communities: Public Review
or Lack Thereof, over Atlantic Yards
Etcetera
- In Memoriam: Edmund N. Bacon
- Last ExitFixed Up, Looking Sharp
Prefab Housing Goes Green Gracefully
- ReviewsSteven Malanga, The New New Left
How American Politics Works Today
- ReviewsXavier de Sousa Briggs, The Geography of Opportunity
Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America
