Defining Suburbs: An Evaluation and Comparison of Four Methods

Terbeck, Fabian J.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2020.1758574

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“…All other tracts in the metropolitan area were marked as suburbs. This definition is well suited to distinguish urban and suburban places as it is based on functional political boundaries that pertain to how space is governed (Terbeck 2020). Future research should explore alternative definitions that allow for distinctions between types of suburbs (Lewis-McCoy et al 2023, this issue).…”

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The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs

Rutan

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Desmond

2023

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The suburbanization of poverty in the United States coincided with surging housing costs and growing rent burdens. Although much of the existing literature on eviction focuses on housing insecurity and displacement in cities, there is good reason to suspect that it has become an equally common phenomenon in the suburbs. This study evaluates changes in the frequency of urban and suburban evictions over time across seventy-four large metropolitan areas. Multilevel models show that the number of suburban evictions has steadily risen over time, even as urban evictions have been stable. The cases of Cleveland, Seattle, and Tampa demonstrate that the increase in suburban evictions is concentrated in pockets of the suburbs. Additional analyses reveal large geographic and racial inequalities in suburban displacement.

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The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs

Rutan

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Desmond

2023

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“…The suburbanization of poverty literature is marked by disagreement over what constitutes a suburb (Airgood-Obrycki and Rieger 2019; Forsyth 2012; Terbeck 2020). We adopted Kneebone and Berube’s (2013) census-based definition, which relies on functional political boundaries.…”

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“…10 The remainder were marked as suburbs. While this definition does not allow us to distinguish between different types of suburbs, recent research indicates that such boundary-based suburban definitions effectively distinguish between urban and suburban spaces (Terbeck 2020).…”

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Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction

Hepburn

Rutan

Desmond

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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Eviction has been studied almost exclusively as an urban phenomenon. The growing suburbanization of poverty in the United States, however, provides new cause to analyze the prevalence and correlates of displacement beyond cities. This study analyzes urban-suburban disparities in eviction rates across 71 large metropolitan areas. We show that eviction is a common experience in suburbs as well as cities. Urban eviction rates exceed suburban rates in most cases, but in one in six metropolitan areas experienced higher eviction rates in the suburbs. Multilevel models show that key correlates of eviction—especially poverty and median rent—influence eviction patterns differently in urban and suburban contexts. We explore variations in urban-suburban disparities through case studies of Milwaukee, Seattle, and Miami. Metropolitan areas with larger shifts toward suburban poverty, more expensive urban rental markets, and more segregated suburbs experience more suburban evictions.

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“…3 While there is no widely accepted method to distinguish urban from suburban areas and to define different types of suburbs (Forsyth, 2012), researchers often rely on a small number of census variables to define suburbs (Airgood-Obrycki et al, 2021). In the case of Chicago, the use of administrative boundaries and building age, following an approach applied by Anacker et al (2017), appears to be a suitable method for creating neighborhood typologies (Terbeck, 2020). Moreover, building age is also a suitable variable for the distinction of different types of suburbs, as profound socioeconomic differences between newer and older suburbs have been documented in the literature (Hanlon et al, 2010;Lee et al, 2015;Warren & Puentes, 2006).…”

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Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools

Mordechay,

Terbeck

2023

Educational Policy

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Suburbs across the US are experiencing demographic shifts with consequences for suburban schools. While scholars have expressed concern about rising segregation among suburban public schools, we extend this work by examining changes in racial/ethnic school segregation across a typology of suburban municipalities in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metropolitan area between 2007 and 2018. Our findings are mixed- contingent on the measure of segregation employed. We find that Black-white and Hispanic-white segregation in mature suburbs is rising, but is at least in part driven by shifting demographics. The results suggest intra-suburban variation in segregation, highlighting the connection between race and neighborhood change.

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Defining Suburbs: An Evaluation and Comparison of Four Methods

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs

The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs

Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction

Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools

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