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Title: can the core of cities revitalise?
Review: The authors describe the trends in the 20th century that at first favoured the city, and then, after World War 2, favoured the surrounding suburbs. In the US, this led in some regions to a decayed inner city, abut against a prosperous business district, while the suburbs boomed.The book has a strong statistical bent. Numerous tables that document such things as relative per capita income of suburbs. These are used to buttress observations in the text. Plus, the book also speculates on future trends. Like perhaps a re-favouring of the inner city urban regions? Or of old suburbs. In part motivated by a relative cheapness of housing in those areas, compared to well-to-do suburbs that might have priced themselves out of affordability for much of the workforce.
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