Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States

(Happily, this book gives more attention than others to the role played by immigrants in suburbanization.) However, in terms of population composition, some of Hanlon's findings are counterintuitive. Since most of the urban centers of the Northeast and Midwest regions were built earlier than cities of the Sunbelt, we might expect that by the end of the twentieth century, their inner suburbs had grown poorer than inner suburbs in newer parts of the nation. [...]the book identifies inner suburbs that appear to have capitalized on housing stocks built before 1939 with both a quality and a character that continue to attract residents.