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Introduction

verfasst von : David Dixon

Erschienen in: Suburban Remix

Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

Roughly two-thirds of North Americans live in suburbs, and two-thirds live in single-family houses (see Figure 0.1 ). The traditional suburban dream that built this world—promulgated widely in the decades following World War II—was about homogeneity represented by a growing middle class and symbolized by a single-family house with a white picket fence and a car in the driveway. That dream is dead. It simply no longer describes the places in which most North Americans aspire to live or for which they are willing to pay. Today—as they grow steadily older and younger, richer and poorer, and more racially and ethnically varied—North Americans and their dreams are far more diverse. A 2016 survey even found that affluent Americans, whose default lifestyle has been suburban for decades, do not list suburban living among their top terms to describe the “American Dream.”2

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Fußnoten
1
A community member commenting on planning for redevelopment of the 419 corridor in suburban Roanoke County, Virginia, into a walkable “town center,” March 23, 2017.
 
2
Matthew Schiffman, “SURVEY: The American Dream is ‘no longer in reach,’” Business Insider, April 20, 2016, accessed February 22, 2017, http://​www.​businessinsider.​com/​american-dream-is-no-longer-in-reach-2016-4.
 
3
National Association of Realtors, news release, July 28, 2015, accessed February 22, 2017, http://​nacto.​org/​wp-content/​uploads/​2016/​02/​1_​Natl-Assoc-of-Realtors-2015-Community-Preference-Survey.​pdf.
 
4
US Census projections.
 
5
Richard Florida, “The Incredible Rise of Urban Real Estate,” CityLab, February 25, 2016, accessed August 6, 2017, https://​www.​citylab.​com/​equity/​2016/​02/​rise-of-urban-real-estate/​470748/​.
 
6
CBRE Global Investors, “U.S. Urbanization Trends: Investment Implications for Commercial Real Estate,” January 2015, accessed February 22, 2017, http://​www.​cbreglobalinvest​ors.​com/​research/​publications/​Documents/​Special%20​Reports/​US%20​Urbanization%20​Trends_​JAN%20​2015.​pdf.
 
7
Conversation with Laurie Volk, Zimmerman Volk Associates, January 10, 2018.
 
8
Elizabeth Kneebone, “Suburban Poverty Is Missing from the Conversation about America’s Future,” Brookings Institution, September 15, 2016, accessed February 21, 2017, https://​www.​brookings.​edu/​articles/​suburban-poverty-is-missing-from-the-conversation-about-americas-future/​.
 
Metadaten
Titel
Introduction
verfasst von
David Dixon
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Verlag
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-864-0_1