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for, 90, 98
    and suburban crime, 179
    African Americans
    loans/housing discrimination, 43
    in redlined areas, 42–43
    Aging population
    aging-in-place, 148–49
    community services to, 148–49
    in suburban communities, 143–45, 147–150
    Alexandria, Virginia, 41
    Alfandre, Joe, 121
    Alfonzo, Mariela, 131
    Americana at Brand, Glendale, 132
    American Dream
    of home-ownership, 65–66, 76–77
    original concept of, 65
    and suburbia, 9–12, 25, 36, 61, 64–69
    Anton, Frank, 25
    Arcade Fire, 51, 79
    Arcadia Land Company, 36, 49, 69, 134, 135
    Arlington Crossings, Illinois, 128
    Arquitectonica, 116
    AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, 44
    Austintown, Ohio, 143–44, 147, 149
    Automobiles.
See also
Commuting
    accidents and suburbs, 82–85
    decreased use (2004- ), 107–12
    decreased use, future view, 106–7
    dependence and health, 86–89
    dependence and suburban living, 79–81, 85–86, 89–91
    energy efficient, 105, 108
    millennials rejection of, 20
    pollution and, 46, 99, 108
    and suburban design, 32–34
    and suburban development, 32–34, 41–42, 81–82
    use, beginning of, 32
    walkable communities and use, 133–34
     
    Baby boomers, 145, 148, 160
    Baby bust, 145
    Baches, Demetri, 203–4
    Banks, repossessed homes, reuse of, 186–87, 205–6
    Barclays Center, 176
    Beacon Hill, Boston, 29, 41
    Beazer Homes, 24
    Belmar, Colorado, 181
    Bernstein, Scott, 99–102, 205
    Best Buy, 45, 172
    Best Buy Mobile, 172
    Big-box stores
    emergence of, 44–45
    scale-down for cities, 18, 172–73
    Birth rate, decline of (2011), 144, 158
    Blackstone Group, 187
    Bloomberg, Michael, 159
    Boccaccio, 27
    Boston, renewal and growth (2011), 168
    Brant, Gary, 144
    Brooklyn Heights, 29
    Buffalo Commons, 184
    Buffett, Warren, 72
    Bush, George W., 66
    Butler, Win and William, 51
     
    Calthorpe, Peter, 19, 52, 119, 120, 209
    Cambridge, Boston, 29, 111–12
    Camden Yards Sports Complex, 176
    Caruso, Rick, 132, 198
    Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, 8
    Celebration, Florida, 126
    Center City Philadelphia, 17–18
    Charleston, South Carolina, 40
    Chester County, Pennsylvania, 13
    Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 41
    Chicago
    corporation relocations to, 173
    early suburbs of, 30
    renewal and growth (2011), 167
    Children
    automobile dependence of, 81, 85–86
    cities as enrichment for, 112, 170–71
    obesity problem, 88–89
    population decline in suburbs, 145–47
    street play, lack in suburbs, 81, 90
    Cicero, 27
    Cities
    big-box store formats in, 18, 172–73
    children, benefits to, 112, 170–71
    corporation relocations to, 173–76
    crime, past view, 44, 167, 168, 179
    decline (1970s), 44, 168
    developments by suburban developers, 6, 18, 23, 163–66
    empty nesters return to, 172
    exodus from.
See
History of suburbia
    historical view, 28–29
    home-building boom in, 6, 16
    home value increase in, 15, 188
    as millennials’ residence choice, 19–20, 157–59
    population growth in, 14
    renewal and growth (2011), 167–69
    shrinkage, alternatives to, 185
    smaller/Top Tier Towns, 204
    sports stadiums in, 176–77
    urbanism, books in favor of, 166–67
    wealth, resurgence in, 17–18, 163–177, 187–88
    young families’ preference for, 111–12, 151–52, 169–172, 204–5
    City (store), 18, 172
    City replicas, 127–28
    Civil Rights Act (1964), 43
    Clayton Homes, 72
    Clinton, Bill, 65–66
    Colony Capital, 187
    Community Growth, Crisis and Challenge
(film), 39
    Commuting, 94–99
    average time spent, 94
    commuting paradox, 98
    costs of, 5–6, 21, 99–101
    extreme commutes, 94–97
    longer distances, and housing boom, 68–69, 71, 74–76, 104
    necessity and suburbs, 5, 13, 46
    physical/mental problems related to, 97–99
    Compound concepts, 157
    Concept homes, configuration of, 6–7
    Condominiums, developments by suburban developers, 163–66
    “Confessions of a Recovering Engineer” (Marohn), 57, 63
    Congress for New Urbanism, 52, 113–15, 140
    Conservatives, suburbs, support by, 62–63
    Cooper, Gary, 194–95
    Coors Field,