The decline of older, inner suburbs in metropolitan America

Hanlon, Bernadette

doi:10.1080/10511482.2008.9521642

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“…The findings of Lucy and Phillips' (2006) national study reinforce this explanation; census tracks that housing was mostly constructed in the 1950s and primarily in the 1960s showed decreases in relative average family income as compared to the metropolitan average in the 1990s. The importance of housing age is also represented in Hanlon's (2008) study, showing that housing in older inner suburbs in crisis was built between 1950 and 1969. Hanlon, however, indicates that suburbs with housing built before 1939 were advancing between 1980 and 2000, demonstrating that style, historic appeal, and other characteristics can be very important to attract homebuyers.…”

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“…According to Hanlon (2008), a great portion of older inner-ring suburbs are in crisis in the South and Midwest, whereas these older suburbs are stable in the Northeast and even advancing in the West. Socioeconomic decline that was a central city problem is now also an issue in older suburbs Phillips 2000, 2001;Margulis 2002;Hanlon and Vicino 2007).…”

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Intrametropolitan residential mobility and older inner suburbs: A case study of the Greater Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area

Kim

Morrow‐Jones

2011

Housing Policy Debate

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Despite signs of decline, older inner suburban areas have not drawn much attention as declining central cities in the United States. In this paper, we study intrametropolitan residential mobility in the greater Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area, focusing on older suburban areas. We organize our discussion around possible explanations for the decline of older suburbs associated with suburbanization, utilizing natural evolution and flight from blight theories. We found that there is a sequence of outward movement toward newer suburbs from older suburbs, and the households who moved to outer areas often cited the desire for a newer house. These results indicate that policies to help remodel older homes and/or construct new homes to replace older ones can be an initial step for those older suburbs to retain households. We conclude that natural evolution explains older suburban movers' outward movement, but there are signs that the flight from blight explanations may become more important in the future.

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Intrametropolitan residential mobility and older inner suburbs: A case study of the Greater Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area

Kim

Morrow‐Jones

2011

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“…Some researchers argue that neighborhoods with dominant older populations tend to be more socially vulnerable to economic decline, lower home values, poverty, age segregation, or crime due to diversity in age composition [38,45,46]. By contrast, the recent large migration of retirees tend to find less vulnerable places such as age-segregated and comprehensively-planned gated communities for their migration destinations [47].…”

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Predictable Surprise: The Spatial and Social Morphology of Aging Suburbs in the U.S. Metropolitan Areas

2017

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Elderburbs, defined as old suburban neighborhoods in terms of their 'built environments' and 'demographic structures', have emerged prominently in academic discussion due to the social vulnerability and outdated built environments of senior dominant neighborhoods that barely meet the needs of their aging populations. Even though previous literature has revealed concerns about suburban decline and the growing number of seniors, these two points of interest have largely been examined in isolation from one another. Thus, this paper attempts to unveil the spatial and social morphology of Elderburbs in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas from 1990 to 2010. Elderburbs were identified by two major criteria; built year (first-generation suburbs built between 1950 and 1970) and demographic aging (based on elderly, elderly-child, and elderly dependency ratios). The findings of this study indicate that Elderburbs have increased and expanded out to suburban areas, especially in the Northeast and Midwest. On the contrary, Elderburbs in the South have decreased and moved closer to core cities. Differing from our assumptions, both Elderburbs and Elderurbans were found to be less socially vulnerable than ordinary suburban and urban neighborhoods.

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“…For "it is evident that many old suburbs are facing the challenge of periodical or cyclical decline, caused by selective migration, disinvestment or simply aging in the context of certain urban development trajectories. According to recent surveys, it is estimated that almost 15 per cent of the old or inner suburbs in the U.S. are subject to such changes" (Hesse 2010: section 32;Hanlon 2008Hanlon , 2012Short et al 2007;Vicino 2008). This is not the whole story, however.…”

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Hybrid suburbia: New research perspectives in France and Southern California

Weber

Kühne

2017

Quaestiones Geographicae

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Geographical research on French and US suburbia has concentrated in recent decades on urban sprawl and concomitant processes of devaluation and exclusion. In the case of the French banlieues, with their much-publicised urban riots, this particular analytic focus has become overwhelming, with resultant loss to other developments and perspectives. However, certain districts in the first (or inner) ring of both French and US suburbia are currently showing distinct urbanisation tendencies in planning and architecture, evident in the new usage of brownfield sites and the ongoing demolition, replacement, and rededication of the older building core. Such processes induce population changes, e.g. the displacement of lower in favour of higher income groups. Overall, they result in an architectonic, social and cultural heterogeneity that escapes the specificity of received categories and merits the term hybridisation. The article describes and compares these processes as exemplified in Greater Paris and San Diego (Southern California).

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The decline of older, inner suburbs in metropolitan America

Cited by 70 publications

References 15 publications

Intrametropolitan residential mobility and older inner suburbs: A case study of the Greater Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area

Intrametropolitan residential mobility and older inner suburbs: A case study of the Greater Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area

Predictable Surprise: The Spatial and Social Morphology of Aging Suburbs in the U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Hybrid suburbia: New research perspectives in France and Southern California

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