Retirement Migration: A little-mentioned, hidden-in-plain-sight population movement with lots of implications for ED is Retirement Migration (a generational cohort migration). Yes, Florida and Arizona captured
Category: the South
Birmingham Alabama
Birmingham AL: The purest example of southern industrial city-building in this period was the “satellite” cities, Birmingham the most successful. Financed by iron-steel firms, satellite
the New “New” South and the Vanishing Sunbelt
New South: the Vanishing Sunbelt During these years one heard more and more about “the New South”. The initial announcement was delivered in the
Second Reconstruction, Economic Report on the South, War Production, Southern Industrialization and Sketches of Southern Cities
The “Peculiar” Context of Southern Economic Development FDR’s southern strategies were fundamental, even radical–focused on infrastructure and an agricultural “revolution”. Both threatened the traditional Redeemer
Miami Florida
MIAMI (Dade) Miami, FL: Miami was a speculative dream of Henry Flager (a Rockefeller Standard Oil partner; the lawyer who drafted its corporate charter) (Brands, 2010,
Suburban Regional Distinctions: Dolores Hayden, Alonso and Muth (McDonald),Central Place
Policy Cut Chapter 14 But suburbs are much more than this simple numerical reality. Until recently (a decade or so) most analysis and commentary tended
Ron W. Coan 