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><channel><title>Decatur Metro &#187; suburbs</title> <atom:link href="/tag/suburbs/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.decaturmetro.com</link> <description>Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:19:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1</generator> <item><title>Decatur Gets WSJ Shout-Out</title><link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/10/20/decatur-gets-wsj-shout-out/</link> <comments>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/10/20/decatur-gets-wsj-shout-out/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:46:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Decatur Metro</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suburbs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705</guid> <description><![CDATA[Richard Florida, known for his fairly recent theories on &#8220;the creative class&#8221; and their clustering in post-industrial cities, wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks back about the qualities of America&#8217;s most resilient suburbs during an era where many suburbs are in decline. In addition to the ongoing conversation about retro-fitting [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/10/20/decatur-gets-wsj-shout-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>32</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Good Old &#8216;Burbs</title><link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/06/the-good-old-burbs/</link> <comments>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/06/the-good-old-burbs/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:30:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Decatur Metro</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Hilarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suburbs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Onion]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705</guid> <description><![CDATA[Doing what they do best, a recent Onion op-ed satirizes nostalgia for the &#8220;old suburbs&#8221; while simultaneously raising a very apt and difficult question for 21st century America:  when does &#8220;convenient&#8221; become &#8220;too convenient&#8221;? Long ago, in the Time Before the Best Buy, before the interchange expanded to six lanes and brought travelers and their [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/06/the-good-old-burbs/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leaving Their Parents Behind</title><link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/05/10/leaving-their-parents-behind/</link> <comments>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/05/10/leaving-their-parents-behind/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Decatur Metro</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Atlanta demographics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suburbs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[white flight]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705</guid> <description><![CDATA[Highways, the GI bill, cheap gas, and inner-city racial tensions contributed to that sociological storm that made &#8220;white flight&#8221; the rhymey-rage 50 years ago.  At least that&#8217;s what the history books tell me. According to those hard-backed tomes, a predominant number of Caucasians packed up their families and headed from the inner cities out into [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/05/10/leaving-their-parents-behind/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>14</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gas Prices Are a Killer in the Suburbs</title><link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/06/26/gas-prices-are-a-killer-in-the-suburbs/</link> <comments>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/06/26/gas-prices-are-a-killer-in-the-suburbs/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:28:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Decatur Metro</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[commutes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gas prices]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suburbs]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705</guid> <description><![CDATA[Today, the New York Times is talking about what we&#8217;ve been discussing for months. It even quotes the Atlantic article I featured a few months back in my award-winning* &#8220;Slumming It in Your McMansion&#8221; post. Namely, that gas prices are clearing out the ex-urbs and suburbs, and people are buying smaller homes and smaller cars [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/06/26/gas-prices-are-a-killer-in-the-suburbs/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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