Municipal Decline and Inequality in American Suburban Rings, 1960–1980

Bollens, Scott A.

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“…To provide further insight into this explanation of decline in older suburbs, this article compares and contrasts the age of the housing stock in both advancing and in crisis suburbs to see how it differs. It is to be expected that there is more old housing in suburbs in crisis than in advancing or prospering suburbs (Bollens 1988). It is also to be expected that new housing is prominent in successful suburban areas (Bier 2001).…”

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“…However, in recent years, a number of studies have examined decline in suburban areas (Baldassare 1986;Bier 2001;Bollens 1988;Hanlon and Vicino 2007;Hudnut 2003;Leigh and Lee 2005;Lucy and Phillips 2000a, 2000bOrfield 2002;Puentes and Warren 2006;Smith, Caris, and Wyly 2001;Swanstrom et al 2004). In the newest national study focusing on this issue, Lucy and Phillips (2006) determined that half of a sample of 2,586 suburbs in 35 large metropolitan areas had income levels below the area income in 1990 and 2000, and half declined in relative income during this same period.…”

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The decline of older, inner suburbs in metropolitan America

Hanlon

2008

Housing Policy Debate

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This article develops an index of suburban decline for 3,428 U.S. suburbs. The results of this index were used to measure the prevalence and extent of decline for older, inner suburbs and newer suburbs across the nation and in different regions from 1980 to 2000. The general pattern is one of decline in selected older, inner suburbs, especially those with housing built between 1950 and 1969 and those with increasing minority populations.Regional analysis reveals that the South and the Midwest had the highest proportion of older, inner suburbs in crisis. Suburbs with housing built before 1939 emerged as areas of continuing affluence.

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The decline of older, inner suburbs in metropolitan America

Hanlon

2008

Housing Policy Debate

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“…They identify older manufacturing suburbs and older residential suburbs with low levels of both manufacturing and trade employment as those "facing the most difficult social and fiscal situations." Bollens (1988) defines poor or troubled suburbs as those with median family incomes below that of the average for 34 large central cities. His study of suburban units with populations over 10,000 in one of the 100 largest (population) MSAs identifies approximately one in seven suburbs to be troubled in 1960, 1970 and 1980.…”

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Has the concentration of income and poverty among subsurbs of large US metropolitan areas changed over time?

Madden¹

2003

Papers in Regional Science

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American policy analysts have assumed that poverty is increasingly concentrating in the inner suburbs of large cities. This study demonstrates that that assumption is inaccurate. Using data on household income and poverty for suburban civil divisions from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 US Censuses, this article calculates values for two indicators of the change in the relative concentration of income and poverty, the coefficient of variation, and a regression of changes on initial values. Results indicate that poverty and income concentrations have not generally increased among suburbs over the last twenty years. There is evidence, however, that poverty has increasingly concentrated within some suburban municipalities of older metropolitan areas in the northeast and midwest. Abstract. American policy analysts have assumed that poverty is increasingly concentrating in the inner suburbs of large cities. This study demonstrates that that assumption is inaccurate. Using data on household income and poverty for suburban civil divisions from the 1970, 1980 and 1990 US Censuses, this article calculates values for two indicators of the change in the relative concentration of income and poverty, the coefficient of variation, and a regression of changes on initial values. Results indicate that poverty and income concentrations have not generally increased among suburbs over the last twenty years. There is evidence, however, that poverty has increasingly concentrated within some suburban municipalities of older metropolitan areas in the northeast and midwest. JEL classification: R12, R23

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“…These trends were exacerbated in the 1970s by the preference of higher income households for exurban and rural locations (Fuguitt & Zuiches, 1975). Bollens (1988) noted a national rate of suburban income decline of one in seven suburban cities occurring in the 1970s. Orfield (1997) later detected that the rate of decline of inner ring suburbs was faster than that of central cities and that the problem was spreading to the adjacent rings as the metropolitan edge extended outwards.…”

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“…Higher concentrations of elderly poor, property crime, and immigrant populations were new signs of suburban distress. Bollens (1988) found older suburbs, primarily in the industrial North East, showing the highest declining income levels in the 1960s and 1970s. The decline of first ring suburbs followed the racial segregation patterns of central cities while at the same time a significant population shift from older to newer suburbs perpetuated previous suburbanisation trends.…”

Section: Suburban Declinementioning

confidence: 98%