Between Sprawl, Slum and Hope: Urban Studies @ NYPL

by Trevor Owen Jones, Grand Concourse Library
May 18, 2010

The United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division estimated that by the end of 2008, for the first time in human history, the Earth's population was more than half concentrated into urban areas.

Whether we prefer it or not, the near future certainly involves city living, apartments, mass transportation, and all the other pros and cons of high density urban life. While gentrification is certainly discussed to no end in the media, less mainstream attention has focused on its counterpart, the death of suburbia.
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Suburban sprawl in Las Vegas, Nevada (photo by EcoFlight/Flickr)