ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. This book discusses the metropolitan areas, it focuses upon metropolitan area movements and the trends that cause such movements. One dramatic jobs trend within metropolitan areas that Beverly Cigler analyzes is the drop in manufacturing jobs within the United States. Manufacturing jobs have resided in the core cities of metropolitan areas, but the precipitous drop in such jobs has impacted core cities in many ways. Some families are trapped by limited capital and mobility in core city, poor neighborhoods while other families must drive far out into exurban neighborhoods to reach the cheaper mortgages affordable with their limited capital. It explores one to identify the characteristics of that better life and the cases where it has succeeded and failed. The book examines that there are a multitude of public policies in metropolitan areas with an inclusiveness and flexibility unknown twenty years ago.
