Suburb

A rural township in northern Michigan is trying to avoid becoming divided into malls and housing subdivisions and to preserve its open spaces and walkable town centers. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s J. Carl Ganter recently visited Old Mission Peninsula where he found a community that has taken the unusual step of taxing residents in […]

Reporter Lisa Labuz travels on house calls with a modern day trapper who removes wild animals from the homes of people who’ve strayed into their territory  ? the expanding rural suburbs.

Outside of Chicago, a new development called Prairie Crossing combines new housing and preserved farmland. It is a compromise aimed at saving as much cropland as possible in an area under intense population pressure. Robin Finesmith of Living on Earth’s Midwest bureau reports.

Despite the bad rap that suburbs often get for being dull and sterile, more than half of Americans live there. We’re joined by Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and Larry Levy of Hofstra University.