| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.2

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Halfway to Everywhere A Portrait of America's First-Tier Suburbs

By William H. Hudnut, III

(Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2003. Pp. xviii, 478. Maps, notes, appendices, index. Clothbound, $34.95; paperbound, $18.95.)

Professors, planners, and journalists have written many volumes on urban renewal, but few authors have tackled the subject of suburban renewal. In Halfway to Everywhere William H. Hudnut, former mayor of Indianapolis, attempts to remedy this neglect and to examine what is being done to revive America's first-tier suburbs. Hudnut defines first-tier suburbs as those cities and towns closest to the central cities that developed before or immediately after World War II. These older suburbs are halfway between the traditional hub of the central-city downtown and the booming edge-city commercial centers along the metropolitan fringe. Though halfway to everywhere that matters in the economic and cultural life of the metropolis, they are too often, according to Hudnut, ignored territory, overlooked by those reporting on the gentrifying core and the expanding edge. Moreover, they are too frequently forgotten by state and federal policy-makers.

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