... with Christopher Leinberger of The Brookings Institute. Thanks to the "Tranportation for America" blog for publicizing the fantasic interview (below) appearing in The Infrastructurist (http://www.infrastructurist.com/).
In this interview, Leinberger discusses the folly of suburban development, the reversal of "white flight" underway which is bringing professionals back to the urban core, the long road back from the current housing crisis, and ideas for a better way forward, including public transportation.
Here's the interview: http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/02/10/how-to-save-the-suburbs-an-interview-with-christopher-leinberger/
And here's a phrase I think we will be hearing a lot more in the years to come: "the emerging suburban slum" (used in a comment by Bruce McF below the article). My architectural-historian wife has voiced this same thought under the phrase "tomorrow's tenements", referring to the shoddily-constructed suburban developments now struggling to attract buyers.
We have to move beyond the notion of mass transit in this country being "poor man's transportation". Perhaps the current financial meltdown will give us all a push in that direction.
I'm on my way out the door to find Leinberger's book(s)...
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