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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A comprehensive national study of inner-ring suburbs in the U.S.<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592139361&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Once the American Dream</h1>
<H2>Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States</H2>
<h3>Bernadette Hanlon</h3>
<P>cloth 1-59213-936-1 $54.50, Dec 09, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT>
<BR> 224 pp
6x9
32 tables 13 map(s) 11 figures
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"An engaging contemporary study of twenty years of suburban change in the U.S., </I>Once the American Dream<I> is more comprehensive than earlier works on suburbs, focusing on differences among suburbs rather than the city/suburban differences. The breadth of stories told against the analysis helps provide good insights and makes the national picture more local to readers. Hanlon ably demonstrates how to apply useful methodologies to the study of contemporary metropolitan geography."</I><BR><B>—David L. Phillips</B>, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>At one time, a move to the suburbs was the American Dream for many families. However, despite the success of Levittown, New York, impoverished "inner-ring" suburbs—those closest to the urban core of metropolitan cities—like Lansdowne, Maryland, are in decline. As aging housing stock, foreclosures, severe fiscal problems, slow population growth, increasing poverty, and struggling local economies affect inner-ring suburbs, what can be done to save them?</p><p>
<i>Once the American Dream</i> analyzes this downward trend, examining five thousand suburbs across one hundred different metropolitan areas and census regions in 1980 and 2000. Hanlon defines the suburbs’ geographic boundaries and provides a ranking system for assessing and acting upon inner-ring suburban decline. She illuminates her detailed statistical analysis with vivid case studies. She also demonstrates how other suburbs, particularly those in the outer reaches of cities, flourished during the 1980s and 1990s. <i>Once the American Dream</i> closes with a discussion of policy implications and recommendations for policymakers and planners who deal with suburbs of various stripes.</p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><i>"</i>Once the American Dream<i> breaks new ground in its national coverage of the differentiation among types of suburbs, the measurement of suburban decline, and case studies illustrating the comparison between declining inner-ring suburbs and newer suburbs. Hanlon’s book is well organized, the writing is clear, and the figures, tables, and maps are helpful, as is the appendix. With the increased interest in the situation of the inner-ring suburbs, this book will appeal to students and scholars of urban planning, metropolitan development and politics, and sociology."</i>
<br>—<b>Dennis Keating</b>, Professor and Distinguished Scholar, College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
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<H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/2001_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Bernadette Hanlon</b> is a research analyst at the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research interests include suburban growth and decline, urban policy and planning, and state and local government.</P></td></tr></table>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/geography.html" TARGET="_top">Geography</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a>
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