[craigs]

I think the early 1980s were the peak of suburbia and the nadir of urban America; by the end of the decade, however, there was building momentum in some areas of some cities provided by the Yuppies who worked in downtowns and wanted to live in city neighborhoods. This was especially notable at the time in parts of Boston, New York, and San Francisco but it was not limited only to parts of those cities. The big rush back into cities didn't come until a big cohort of Gen X fled the suburbs in the 1990s, but there was already a turnaround in the works by the end of the 1980s.