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The Comparative Guide To American Suburbs 2005: Covers Over 2,400 Suburban Communities in the 50 Largest Metro Areas-With Rankings (Comparative Guide to American Suburbs)
Publication Date: May 31, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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A hit or miss compilation of census data August 30, 2007 Gray House has published some useful books in this twilight era of print reference (at least until the next catastrophes arrive, when we'll be back to pictographs and recitations from memory again, perhaps), but The Comparative Guide to Am. Suburbs isn't one of them, at least not the 2005 edition. Pretty much all the data is available on the online version of the US Census (land area, population with the usual ethnic breakdowns, income levels, single-family ownership rates, institutionalized education levels), along with an occasional historical tidbit (though I'd never heard of the factoid offered for the post-industrial burg I currently dwell in). You can get more stuff by going to kindly Uncle Sam's FactFinder. And about more places. There's some really odd inconsistency here. I had occasion to open the book while looking for data on Fort Collins CO, and found, to my surprise, none. If you approach Denver from the north, you can't miss Ft. Collins, especially not the traffic pouring into and out of it, communicating with the rest of the Denver metroplex. Which is not to say that you can tell it apart from the rest of the Denver suburbs. Well, a lot of those other cookie-cutter burbs AREN'T in this book, either. I suppose you could object that Ft. Collins, and Loveland, and Littleton, and the rest of the places that look so much like Gurnee, Illinois (except on the days when you can see the mountains) are a long way from Denver. But Lawrence and Lowell are a long way from Boston, too, and they make it into this book. I don't like to cut a Grey House product; as I said, they've made some good books. But this one, which should have served its purpose, didn't.
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