The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model
Hanlon, B.F., Vicino, T.J., & Short, J.R. (2006) 'The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model,' Urban Studies 43 (12): 2129-2143
15 Pages Posted: 30 Nov 2012 Last revised: 22 Feb 2016
Date Written: November 1, 2006
Abstract
This paper critically evaluates the traditional metropolitan model of an urban core and a homogeneous suburban ring. Using place data from the US Bureau of the Census from 1980 to 2000, it examines 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US. Poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places. The results suggest the need for more subtle frameworks in order better to understand the structure of contemporary metropolitan areas.
Keywords: suburbs, sprawl, poor, immigrant, manufacturing, black, diversity, population
JEL Classification: J10, J11, J18, O20, R10
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