Recent years have seen unprecedented revitalization in many of America's older industrial
cities. The dynamics of revitalization, however, have tended to concentrate population and …

America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined
sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades. How much of this …

Who really benefits from urban revival? Cities, from trendy coastal areas to the nation's
heartland, are seeing levels of growth beyond the wildest visions of only a few decades ago …

Cities in the Southern United States have experienced dynamic economic and population
growth over the past half-century, challenging existing paradigms of urban form, race …

Place Matters speaks eloquently of the shifts within and between US metropolitan areas,
and the problems of growing racial and economic segregation. It's argument is more …

The contexts for urban demographic change in the United States have led to sharper divi
sions in the growth prospects, diversity profiles, and economic structures across broad …

This volume, one in a series of Brookings Studies by the authors, explores the causes and
future of urban growth and decline in US cities with populations of more than 100,000 by …

Transformations in the composition and locational patterns of the economy have assumed
specific forms in cities and in the urban hierarchy. The new service-dominated urbanization …

Despite periodic reports of an'urban renaissance/social and economic conditions have
persistently deteriorated in US cities since the 1960s. Particularly in the older, historically …

The wake of the foreclosure crisis warrants renewed attention to geographies of race and
real estate. This case study of the San Francisco Bay Area shows that outlying exurban …