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Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US
By Bernadette Hanlon, John Rennie Short, and Thomas J. Vicino
Available from Routledge on December 6, 2009
Cloth, Paper, and E-Book Editions. 304 pp.
Subjects: Planning; Planning, Housing & Land Economy; Urban Geography; Urban Studies.
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Endorsements
"The metropolitanization of America has been accompanied by some surprising changes in political, economic, social and physical landscapes. This book is an excellent primer on the new realities of reconfigured and resurgent metropolitan settings."
Professor Paul Knox, Virginia Tech, USA
Author of Metroburbia, USA (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
"For over half a century the process of suburbanisation has transformed American society. This timely contribution offers an informed, informative and incisive commentary on the trends and consequences of this ongoing process in the US."
Professor Michael Pacione, University of Strathclyde, UK
Author of Urban Geography: A Global Perspective (Routledge, 2009)
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Reviews
“… an enlightening and thorough new study …”
-- The Next American City, Issue 26, 2010
“Cities and Suburbs provides quite welcome, up-to-date insights into the state of American suburbs in metropolitan contexts, based on current literature and most recent research findings. The format of the book is highly accessible … highly recommended.”
-- Urban Geography
“Many aspects that the authors address are at the current knowledge frontier, such as immigrant suburbs, MPOs, and regional initiatives, all of which make the book a very timely and excellent contribution … Overall, Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US is a great resource for policy analysts and makers as well as metropolitan scholars in many disciplines including geography, economics, politics, sociology, urban studies, and urban planning.”
-- Journal of Planning Literature
“Recommended. All Undergraduate Libraries.”
-- Choice, October, 2010
“This compact and well-written book is an ideal text for the many disciplines that study the confounding complexity of the U.S. metropolis. It focuses abstract discussion by presenting specific case studies and provides concise summaries, numerous citations of major works, and an excellent bibliography. The perceptive and lively style makes it instructive, enjoyable reading.”
-- Professional Geographer
“Cities and Suburbs by Bernadette Hanlon, John R. Short, and Thomas J. Vicino provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the current state of metropolitan America and especially suburban decline … a comprehensive approach that does justice to the vast, interconnected, and complex processes of metropolitan growth and decline. It is well suited for scholars of urban and regional planning, geography, economics, politics, sociology, and urban studies, and will significantly enhance their understanding of the complex issues facing metropolitan America. Students will benefit from a deeper understanding of the suburbanization of America.”
-- Journal of Urban Affairs
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Description
This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and finally the extent and nature of their decline and renewal.
Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US offers a comprehensive examination of demographic and socioeconomic processes of US suburbanization by providing a succinct guide to understanding the dynamic relationship between metropolitan structure and processes of social change. A variety of case studies are used in the chapters to explore suburban successes and failures and the discourse concludes with reflections on metropolitan policy and planning for the twenty-first century.
The topics of discussion include:
--Key ideas and concepts on the demographic and sociospatial aspects of metropolitan change
--The changing nature of city and suburban population migration and their relationships with changes at the local, metropolitan, national, and global levels
--Current metropolitan public policy issues of large cities and suburbs
--Links of suburbanization to metropolitan transformation and the growing dichotomy between suburban decline and suburban sprawl in metropolitan areas.
Cities and Suburbs relies on theorized case studies, demographic analysis, maps, and photos from North America. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book addresses various fundamental questions about the socioeconomic role that suburbs and cities play in shaping metropolitan areas, their environmental impact, the political consequences, and the resulting policy debates. This is essential reading for scholars and students of Geography, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Urban Studies and Urban Planning.
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Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore
By Thomas J. Vicino
Available from Palgrave Macmillan on June 10, 2008
Cloth and E-Book Editions. 244 pp.
Subjects: Suburbs; Suburban Life; Social Classes; Deindustrialization; Race Discrimination; Segregation; Baltimore Metrpolitan Area.
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Endorsements
"Vicino masterfully provides a comprehensive analysis of the decline of first-tier suburbs of Baltimore ... providing important lessons for other metropolitan areas with similar patterns of decline."
--Professor Dennis Keating, Cleveland State University
Author of Suburban Racial Dilemma (Temple University Press, 1994)
“This is the most sophisticated study yet of first-tier suburban decline. Scholars and policymakers have only begun to catch up to the fact that the urban crisis has moved to the suburbs. Vicino gets it. His book will be indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the rapidly changing suburban landscape. Vicino shatters the conventional image of suburbia: Leave It to Beaver gives way to the New Suburban Gothic. Vicino displays the complex geography of first-tier suburbs pockmarked by bleak landscapes left behind by suburban sprawl. Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia is essential reading for anyone interested in suburban decline.”
--Professor Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri
Co-Author of Place Matters (University Press of Kansas, 2004)
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Reviews
“A comprehensive analysis of the evolution of first-tier suburbs and revitalization efforts in Baltimore County. This book should serve as a reliable and informative resource for urban scholars, planners, and policymakers, as it elucidates the reality of first-tier suburban communities and the challenges and opportunities they face in the 21st century.”
-- Journal of the American Planning Association
“Vicino’s multidisciplinary approach, accurately and with detail, paints a human portrait applicable across the United States … This is an excellent addition to the literature and makes for a top-notch addition as a text in the areas or urban development, geography, planning, and public administration.”
-- Urban Geography
“Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia fills an important gap … It lays groundwork for years and decades of suburban research on this aspect as well as others, be it on the East Coast, somewhere else in the United States, or in suburban communities in developed countries in Europe or Australasia.”
-- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
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Description
Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs--the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once the bastion of a large middle class, have matured and experienced three decades of social and economic decline. In the first comprehensive analysis of suburban decline for an entire region, Vicino uses Baltimore as an illustrative case to chronicle how first-tier suburbs experienced widespread decline while outer suburbs flourished since the 1970s. At the brink of the twenty-first century, Vicino illustrates how the processes of deindustrialization, racial diversity, and class segregation have shaped the evolution of suburban decline.
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