Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030

摘要

In coming decades, the shape and composition of American Metropolitan areas will undergo significant changes, according to Arthur C. Nelson in his book Reshaping Metropolitan Areas: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030. The forces that have created the sprawling urban areas of twentieth-century America are in rapid decline, and they are being replaced with new economic and demographic trends that are significantly different from those of the recent past. The era of sprawling low-density suburban development is over. The author presents a detailed argument on how changing market forces will affect housing demand as well as commercial properties, and describes how planners should prepare to meet these changes.