The changing face of suburbia
Despite the bad rap that suburbs often get for being dull and sterile, more than half of Americans live there. As more people move to the suburbs, the demographics are changing. Urbanization, density, crime, and immigration are now defining factors of the ‘burbs. We’re joined by Robert Puentes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, and Larry Levy, executive director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.
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