Good News: Cities are Growing, Suburbs are Slowing  It's greener
to live in the city than in the suburbs.   For decades, city-
dwellers have fled to the clean, quiet and spacious American
suburbs, where McMansions have popped up faster than you can say
"Applebee's." But the suburbs are not proving to be recession-
proof, as the latest Census data shows - while cities are
growing nationwide, suburban growth is slowing. It's good green
news, considering that the average city dweller has a carbon
footprint that is much smaller than a suburbanite's. Says the
Wall Street Journal:  The Census data underscored how the
recession and the real-estate slump have curbed migration,
especially to suburbs and outer areas known as exurbs.  The
central-city population in U.S. metropolitan areas with more
than one million people (excluding New Orleans, where recent
growth rates reflect residents returning to the city following
Hurricane Katrina) grew at an annual rate of 0.97% between July
2007 and July 2008, according to Mr. Fr