Continuing urbanization

Golf course and suburban housing outside Madison, Wisconsin

Only recently have we been able to understand that the collapse and decentralization of big, industrial cities and the phenomenal growth and attraction of suburbs, small towns, and spread-out, relatively low-density auto-age cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Houston are part of a continuing process of urbanization rather than some terminal state. Grabow 1977, 115

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