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Christopher M. Cook's The Sprawling of America: Fat of the Land picks up where Inner City Blues left off. The second hour in this two-part series explores the direction in which suburbs are headed, and their impact on rural areas, agriculture, and small towns.



Across the nation, urban downtowns are being redeveloped. Despite this, people, tax revenue, and jobs continue to exit cities-making the United States the first society to have a greater number of people living in suburbs than in either cities or rural areas. The Sprawling of America: Inner City Blues, part one of a two-hour documentary on land use, examines the social, political, and economic causes of sprawl and urban decline.