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Alan ehrenhalt served for 19 years as executive editor of governing magazine, and is currently one of its contributing editors. In the great inversion and the future of the american city we travel the nation with alan ehrenhalt, one of our. Affluent young adults andretirees are moving to cities, which offer roundtheclock street life, cafe sociability,good restaurants and entertain. Describing the process as a demographic inversion, he contends that the suburbs, once. Author of politics in america, politics in america, the united states of ambition, the lost city, politics in america, community and the corner store, politics in america, democracy in the mirror. Chicago as a prime example of this great demographic inversion, ehrenhalt takes his reader on. Alan ehrenhalt was the executive editor of governing magazine from 1990 to 2009.
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