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On AlterNet: suburbs

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "suburbs"

"Clean, Safe and High-Value" Neighborhoods Are Nice Ways of Saying "White" Without Bringing Race into It

Rich Benjamin, Hyperion Books. October 16, 2009.
The law does not forbid segregated or discriminating neighborhoods. It simply forbids intentional discrimination.

Racially Exclusive Suburbs Across U.S. Dubbed the New 'Whitopia'

Racially Exclusive Suburbs Across U.S. Dubbed the New 'Whitopia'

Lewis Beale, Miller-McCune.com. October 7, 2009.
Some of the fastest-growing areas in America are also the most Caucasian -- author Rich Benjamin's new book explores the new establishment of white ghettos.

Should We Bulldoze the 'Burbs?

Should We Bulldoze the 'Burbs?

Eoin O'Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. June 30, 2009.
A debate has ensued about whether to raze neighborhoods that have fallen into economic decay.

Zombie Economics: Don't Bail out the System that Gave Us SUVs and Strip Malls

Zombie Economics: Don't Bail out the System that Gave Us SUVs and Strip Malls

James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. November 25, 2008.
Why squander our remaining resources on a lifestyle that doesn't have a future?

Suburbia: America's Unseen Poverty

Suburbia: America's Unseen Poverty

Eyal Press, The Nation. April 11, 2007.
America's suburbs evoke images of dream homes, plush lawns and neighborhood BBQs, not low-wage jobs and houses under foreclosure. Yet for the first time ever, more poor Americans live in the suburbs than in all our cities combined.