Mission
National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University® is a non-partisan research institution dedicated to promoting the study of suburbia's problems, as well as its promise. Rooted in the laboratory of Long Island’s diverse and aging suburbs and in the shadows of the iconic Levittown, the National Center researches a broad range of issues at local, national, and international scales. The suburbs have emerged at the nexus of dynamic demographic, social, economic and environmental change in New York and throughout the world. We seek to understand the suburbs via academically rigorous research that encompasses the natural and social sciences and the humanities. The goal of the center is to identify, analyze, and solve the problems of suburbia, especially in areas of sustainability, social equity, and economic development.
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December 10, 2014
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LATEST NEWS
WABC TV coverage of Hofstra-Schomburg Center “Black Suburbia” Exhibition
| more |Poverty is Rapidly Increasing in Suburbs Like Ferguson
| more |Sustainability Director, Robert Brinkmann writes on "The Lost Generation of U.S. Climate Policy"
| more |A Long Island Institution Is Cooling Its Ovens.
| more | NCSS Academic Director, Christopher Niedt, is the recipient of the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication for 2013-2014 for his article in Urban Geography
Rural Areas Lose People But Not Power, from Governing Magazine.
| more |NCSS filmmaker, Jordan Crafton’s story in Newsday
| more |Sustainability Director, Robert Brinkmann, was a featured speaker and commentator on sinkholes on numerous media outlets including CNN, CBS, CBC Radio and CNN.com
| more |Lawrence Levy in Educational Gerontology, "Aging in Suburbia: An Assessment of Senior Needs"
| more |A special report on the first year of the New Cassel Youth-run Farmers’ Market prepared by Mary Ann Allison, Ph.D. and The National Center for Suburban Studies
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Professor Mary Anne Trasciatti, part of the NCSS Task Force created by Hofstra President Rabinowitz to help communities recover from Super Storm Sandy, is highlighted in a Wall Street Journal article.
Suburban Oral History Project's David Byer-Tyre in the New York Times, "Views of Intolerance in Many Forms"
Robert Brinkmann in the Oil and Gas Monitor, “Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Conversation: Energy Industry Where Are You?”
New NCSS National Suburban Poll finds Obama and Romney in dead-heat days before election
| more |Robert Brinkmann Edits Special Issue of The Journal of Cave and Karst Studies on Environmental Issues in Limestone Landscapes
| more |Dean Lawrence Levy at the 2012 Democratic Convention
| more |Dean Lawrence Levy at the 2012 Republican Convention
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