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I would love to see someone write a book about the increasing suburbanization of small towns. The shopping strip of big box retail has come to define most towns commercial area while the older retail is either boutiques, where that is possible, or low rent districts for service businesses. While people talk about putting the small town back into cities, no one is talking about how to preserve the small town in small towns. They are being left to the mercy of state highway traffic engineers.
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How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken (00 Edition) by Alex Marshall
rosswilliams, August 1, 2006
I would love to see someone write a book about the increasing suburbanization of small towns. The shopping strip of big box retail has come to define most towns commercial area while the older retail is either boutiques, where that is possible, or low rent districts for service businesses. While people talk about putting the small town back into cities, no one is talking about how to preserve the small town in small towns. They are being left to the mercy of state highway traffic engineers.(1 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)