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,