Birmingham - Suburbs down, Birmingham up?

The Atlantic, 2/21/2008

As the nation's population turns back toward downtowns, the country's suburbs may become the next ghettos, The Atlantic reports. Among the happy few likely to retain property values and viable populations? A little burg we like to call Birmingham.

Excerpt:

For 60 years, Americans have pushed steadily into the suburbs, transforming the landscape and (until recently) leaving cities behind. But today the pendulum is swinging back toward urban living, and there are many reasons to believe this swing will continue. As it does, many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and affluent today, may become what inner cities became in the 1960s and ’70s—slums characterized by poverty, crime, and decay.

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