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March 23, 2005
Article: Vibrant Cities Missing One Thing - Children
This New York Times Article charts the decline of childhood populations in American cities as though the journalist had discovered something shockingly new.
Vibrant Cities Missing One Thing: Children
City policies for redevelopment favor construction of "affordable" and market rate housing units with one or two bedrooms. America's historical bias towards suburban single family homes (Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., U.S. Supreme Court, 1926) finds reflection in a bias towards singles in cities.