The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model

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 immigran...

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Published in:Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Scotland), 2006-11, Vol.43 (12), p.2129-2143
Main Authors: Hanlon, Bernadette, Vicino, Thomas, Short, John Rennie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
America
Bgi / Prodig
Censuses
Centre-periphery relations
Cities
Data analysis
Diversification
Employment
Human geography
Median family income
Metropolis
Metropolitan areas
Population censuses
Population growth
Poverty
Social conditions
Socioeconomics
Suburban areas
Suburbs
U.S.A
United States of America
Urban planning
Urban structure
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0042-0980
1360-063X
DOI:10.1080/00420980600936525