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The Death and Life of Great American Suburbs

Posted by: Connie Chung
Thanks to: Connie Chung
11 December 2003 - 10:00am

Boomburbs, like Naperville, IL and Plano, TX, are faced with challenges as well as opportunities to curb decline and to overcome suburban challenges such as traffic.

"Urban planners say these suburbs are at a crossroads: Some, through careful planning, will remain the places to be, losing little of their chamber-of-commerce luster. Others won't be so fortunate. Neighborhoods will turn, looking nothing like they did a decade earlier....For cities to thrive, they have to draw people. And give residents reasons to stay...."

Full Story: From Naperville to Texas, 'megaburbs' hit middle age
Source: The Chicago Tribune, December 6, 2003
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It has been estimated that half of all Americans, and two-thirds of urban Americans, live in suburbia. Here are the key questions: Does suburbia exist because it is the natural "culmination of urban development"?
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