MEDIA REPORTS ON SUBURBAN ADVANTAGE
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Suburbs are changing in many ways, especially due to their increasing racial, ethnic and class diversity. This broadcast examines some of the public policy challenges of these shifts. "The Changing American Suburb" Odyssey. A Daily Talk Show of Idea (Chicago Public Radio). August 19, 2003. Interview with John Logan and Eric Oliver.
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"The easiest thing for cities to do is keep people who were attracted [there] in the first place," says John Logan, director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, which released the study. "That means providing safe environments, good schools, and maintaining the other services that continue to draw young people to them.... Cities will prosper if they're livable places for people to raise a family and live through their adult years." The Christian Science Monitor, June 25, 2002. Author: Laurent Belsie.
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"This isn't something reflected in buildings going up in the city or industrial parks being built in the suburbs,'' said John Logan, director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, which released the analysis Monday. "This is really about the ability of the city to attract the middle class in competition with the suburbs,'' Logan said. Chicago Sun-Times, June 25, 2002. Author: MARK SKERTIC.