During the “Roaring Twenties,” most of America, including the city of Columbus, was growing rapidly. After a period of uncertainty following World War I, the 1920s was a period of unprecedented ...

The massive exodus of people from rural areas to urban areas over the past 200 years has been called the “great urbanization.” For more than two centuries, people have been leaving rural areas to live ...

Following World War II, millions of Americans moved from cities to new suburban developments. Developers built single-family homes on land that had been open farmland. The Federal Housing ...

Moving from a small place in a big city to a big place in a small city changes things, and you can invest in those changes. One of the more intriguing trends to emerge form the pandemic is folks who ...

The shift from dense metropolitan cities to the outlying burbs is happening. Let's spot the winners for your portfolio. By Rick Munarriz – Updated Aug 17, 2020 at 1:28PM EST Don't look now, but the ...

The classic image of an American metropolis was that of a polyglot city surrounded by mostly white suburbs—the “chocolate city/vanilla suburbs” of the 1950s and 1960s, when white-dominated ...

We are living on a suburban planet. While the majority of humans around the world now call some form of urban habitat their home, most of us live, work and play in environments that would not usually ...

In the U.S., the geography of poverty is shifting. According to a May report from the Pew Research Center, since 2000, suburban counties have experienced sharper increases in poverty than urban or ...