The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
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品牌: Alan Ehrenhalt
基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年4月24日)精装:288页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307272745条形码:9780307272744商品尺寸:16.5 x 2.9 x 24.1 cm商品重量:599 gASIN:0307272745您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介InThe Great Inversion and the Future of the American Citywe travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.
Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted that inner cities were the preserve of immigrants and the poor, and that suburbs were the chosen destination of those who could afford them. Today, a demographic inversion is taking place: Central cities increasingly are where the affluent want to live, while suburbs are becoming home to poorer people and those who come to America from other parts of the world. Highly educated members of the emerging millennial generation are showing a decided preference for urban life and are being joined in many places by a new class of affluent retirees.
Ehrenhalt shows us how the commercial canyons of lower Manhattan are becoming residential neighborhoods, and how mass transit has revitalized inner-city communities in Chicago and Brooklyn. He explains why car-dominated cities like Phoenix and Charlotte have sought to build twenty-first-century downtowns from scratch, while sprawling postwar suburbs are seeking to attract young people with their own form of urbanized experience.
The Great Inversionis an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging look at our urban society and its future.
媒体推荐“The future of the city is the future of America and the world. Alan Ehrenhalt shows us how a desire for urbanism is bringing people back to America’s downtowns, and what suburbs and communities of all sorts must do to thrive in the future. The Great Inversionis a must read for anyone concerned with American cities, urbanism, and the future of the way we live.”
—Richard Florida, author ofWho’s Your City?
“Most writers on cities are either cheerleaders or naysayers. Ehrenhalt is neither, and he has written a balanced, hard-hitting book that is a persuasive forecast of our complex urban future.”
—Witold Rybczynski, author ofMakeshift Metropolis
