Editor's note: In this 50th anniversary year of York's race revolts, the York Daily Record and the York County History Center are co-sponsoring three community forums focused on the causes and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Previous studies have reported a positive relationship between the degree of suburbanization of a metropolitan area and central-city crime ...

During the “Roaring Twenties,” most of America, including the city of Columbus, was growing rapidly. After a period of uncertainty following World War I, the 1920s was a period of unprecedented ...

The suburbanization of America marches on. Population growth in big cities slowed for the fifth-straight year in 2016, 1 according to new census data, while population growth accelerated in the more ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, DRIVING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: THE EFFECTS OF COMPACT DEVELOPMENT ON MOTORIZED TRAVEL, ENERGY USE, AND CO 2 EMISSIONS, ...

The long-prevailing image of a clear delimitation between core city and suburbs has been increasingly questioned in research. New qualitative approaches are necessary to describe the urban-suburban ...

The massive exodus of people from rural areas to urban areas over the past 200 years has been called the “great urbanization.” For more than two centuries, people have been leaving rural areas to live ...

Suburbanization rose from a nuclear defense strategy. In the 1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower began the construction of a national network of highways — not for the sake of transportation, but ...

Following World War II, millions of Americans moved from cities to new suburban developments. Developers built single-family homes on land that had been open farmland. The Federal Housing ...

Five years after the depth of the Great Recession, at a time when the wealth gap in America is at extremes – a new analysis finds it at its widest point since the Roaring 20s – journalist Sasha ...