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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How American Cities Can Avoid the ‘Urban Doom Loop’

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Urbanization of the Suburbs

As millennials move from the cities to these inner ring suburbs, is they take their tastes with them? Will we see more townships, more suburban offices, more mini downtowns and mini downtown aesthetics in suburban areas? I think that this is what the market wants. The problem is that it's really, really hard to build these type of things because most of the suburbs are zoned very, very aggressively towards single family houses or no mixed use.

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