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Courtesy M1EK  Sun, 02/24/2008 - 8:57am

"The Next Slum?" if anything underestimates how bad things are going to get for the suburbs .

There's not much more ability at the margins for people to absorb higher fuel costs, and yet fuel costs in the long-term are going nowhere but up.

In the meantime, as the article notes, modern exurbs cannot be reconfigured into anything useful - but even more important, it's impossible to serve them with reasonably priced mass transit due to their broken...



 

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