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Eye-opening and completely interesting, this really is an indispensable take a look at National metropolitan/suburban culture and its future. In The Truly Amazing Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, among our top urbanologists, reveals how the functions of America’s towns and suburbs are changing places—young grownups and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are moving out—and handles the effects of those changes for future years of our society. Ehrenhalt shows us how the industrial canyons of lower Manhattan are getting residential areas, and how mass-transit has energized inner-city areas in Chicago and Brooklyn. He describes why vehicle-centered cities like Phoenix and Charlotte have wanted to construct twenty-first-century downtowns from-scratch, while vast post-war suburbs are trying to find to entice young adults using their own type of urbanized encounter.