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Revenge of the Suburbs
Lately a few planners, notably Reginald Isaacs of Harvard, have daringly begun to question whether the conception of neighborhood in big cities has any meaning at all. Isaacs points out that city people are mobile. They can and do pick and choose from the entire city (and beyond) for everything from a job, a dentist, recreation, or friends, to shop
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
People like living in suburbs. At the moment, it means being dependent on a car to do almost anything, but that is widely considered a price worth paying for a bit more space and privacy, and the opportunity to own your own home. Millions of suburban dwellers have voted with their feet—or, it is more accurate to say, with their cars.
Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
À l’exode rural a succédé le déclin urbain, étudié aujourd’hui par géographes et sociologues sous le vocable de shrinking cities. Trop ramassé pour offrir le vaste bain de l’anonymat et des plaisirs, trop bitumé pour donner le sentiment du grand air, le chef-lieu de canton a perdu sa raison d’être.
Gaspard Koenig • Notre vagabonde liberté: À cheval sur les traces de Montaigne (French Edition)
Big companies began to build landscaped suburban campuses. Factories also moved out of cities to suburbs, taking jobs with them. The steady shift of white city dwellers into the suburbs, known as white flight, reduced the tax base of cities, prompting city governments to cut back on infrastructure, services, and schools in a cycle of urban decline.
... See moreTom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Social media, mainstream news, and an explosion of Substack newsletters often painted pictures of cities quelled and hibernating, in some ways diminished, and of urbanites either turned inward toward self-betterment, or outward, toward their local communities or country homes.