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As historian Kenneth T. Jackson argues in Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States , central cities began to degenerate, and suburbs to boom, as early as the 1920s, when many people started buying cars.
As David Rusk, a former mayor of Albuquerque, argues in his book, Cities Without Suburbs , metro-wide governments where the suburbs and the city are joined tend to be more racially integrated, and better off in various other ways as well.
The only character whose pain we don't feel is also the only "normal" one, Stevenson's Trish--a sugary, passive-aggressive gargoyle who embodies everything that made some of us flee the suburbs for the urban jungle.
The growth of the highway system around central cities and the rapid expansion of suburbs created new opportunities for shopping centers, malls, and other outlets closer to a growing number of two wage-earner families.
The Federal Housing Administration and the GI bill of 1944 ensured long-term mortgages for home construction and sale, which made it cheaper for the white middle class to buy new homes in the suburbs than to rent (or even modernize) older homes.