Downward mobility

An article in The Nation points out that our perceptions about the suburbs need some revising. New studies show dramatic change: [A] historic milestone ... has gone strangely ignored: For the first time ever, more poor Americans live in the suburbs than in all our cities combined. It's a funny phenomenon: increasingly dense, diverse and poor, the suburbs are becoming the new "city," while increasingly affluent downtowns loaded with veritcal sprawl are becoming the new 'burbs.