The Relationship between City Center Density and Urban Growth or Decline

Fee, Kyle; Hartley, Daniel

doi:10.26509/frbc-wp-201213

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“…In one way, this finding of between-groups overlap and within-group inconsistency is surprising. The majority of cities that declined between 1980 and 2010 were heavily specialized in manufacturing in 1980 (Fee and Hartley 2014), signaling a shared history that ought to make it simple to identify a type of declining city. However, an analysis of just thirteen cities, all with industrial histories, finds that “these cities’ similarities today, however, appear less notable than the variation between them” (Mallach 2014, 125) and that “the most striking conclusion from an assessment of these thirteen cities’ respective urban vitality is not their similarity but their differences” (Mallach 2014, 137).…”

Section: Literature and Theory: “Shrinking”mentioning

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Moving toward a Shared Understanding of the U.S. Shrinking City

Ganning

Tighe

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Scholarly work on “shrinking” cities grew following the 2010 census, resulting in a diverse body of popular and academic literature. However, this has not produced a widely accepted definition of the “shrinking city.” We analyze definitions used in a sample of papers on U.S. shrinking cities and propose an empirically justified definition that reflects the shrinking cities research agenda and is easily operationalized. We demonstrate that our resulting universe of eighty cities represents the places studied in the literature and provides a starting point for future research. We hope to draw scholars to a shared understanding of this pressing topic.

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Section: Literature and Theory: “Shrinking”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving toward a Shared Understanding of the U.S. Shrinking City

Ganning

Tighe

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“…14 Data on distances to city centers were graciously provided to us by Dan Hartley. Fee and Hartley (2012) areas would have been clustered near downtown.…”

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“…Data on tract distances to metropolitan area CBDs are fromFee and Hartley (2012). Because they are missing for a handful of metropolitan areas, we do not present them in our baseline results.…”

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Natural Amenities, Neighbourhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income

Lee

Lin

2017

The Review of Economic Studies

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We present theory and evidence highlighting the role of natural amenities in neighborhood dynamics, suburbanization, and variation across cities in the persistence of the spatial distribution of income. Our model generates three predictions that we confirm using a novel database of consistent-boundary neighborhoods in U.S. metropolitan areas, 1880-2010, and spatial data for natural features such as coastlines and hills. First, persistent natural amenities anchor neighborhoods to high incomes over time. Second, downtown neighborhoods in coastal cities were less susceptible to the suburbanization of income in the mid-20th century. Third, naturally heterogeneous cities exhibit spatial distributions of income that are dynamically persistent.

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“… 3. While there is no universal definition to define the CBDs, another popular definition of the CBDs is to use the CBDs in the 1982 Census of Retail Trade (Baum-Snow and Hartley 2016; Fee and Hartley 2013). The CBDs defined in this article and the Census of Retail Trade are in almost the same locations (within a mile), and thus the results found here are robust to the use of alternative definition of the CBDs.…”

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Are Millennials Coming to Town? Residential Location Choice of Young Adults

Lee

2018

Urban Affairs Review

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How widespread is the downtown resurgence among the current generation of young adults 25 to 34 years old, often referred to as the Millennials? Answering the question, this article provides a detailed analysis of the past, current, and future geographic population distribution, focusing on the young adults. It first documents the demographic shifts from 1990 to 2015 by distance from the central business districts (CBDs) of the 50 largest U.S. metros. The results of the intrametropolitan analysis reconcile the back-to-the-city thesis with sustained suburban growth, explaining how the two sides have reached different conclusions. Then this article empirically examines the generational residential patterns using a multinomial logistic regression, suggesting the generational characteristics of the Millennials, at least partially, explain their inclination to choose city center over suburbs. The simulations based on the model estimates indicate that ongoing demographic shifts might contribute to more population growth in urban centers over the next two decades.

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The Relationship between City Center Density and Urban Growth or Decline

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Moving toward a Shared Understanding of the U.S. Shrinking City

Moving toward a Shared Understanding of the U.S. Shrinking City

Natural Amenities, Neighbourhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income

Are Millennials Coming to Town? Residential Location Choice of Young Adults

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