Regarding HQ1,Bezos is on record saying, “We could have built a suburban campus… I think it would have been the wrong decision.” Amazon VP for global real estate John Schoettlerechoes: “Jeff said the type of employees we want to hire and retain will want to live in an urban environ...
The Loves -- Kevin, Stan, Kevin’s mom Karen, his younger sister, Emily, and older brother Collin -- live in a tousled suburban home filled with evidence that teenagers reside there, with shorts and socks and caps and backpacks tossed seemingly everywhere. It is often filled with Kevin’s...
Park Forest Enterprises built Park Forest Village in 1956. It was the first significant suburban development near State College, the home of Penn State University. Its curved streets and the retention of its old trees offered a marked contrast to the typical post-World War II suburban grid. #4...
the state’s largest and most populousmetropolitan area. Suburbancommunitiesinclude Chesterfield,Florissant, Kirkwood,St. Charles, and University City in Missouri andAlton,Belleville,East St. Louis, andGranite Cityin Illinois. Inc. town, 1809; city, 1822. Area city, 66 square miles (171 square km...