A typology of U.S. suburban places

Mikelbank, Brian A.

doi:10.1080/10511482.2004.9521527

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“…He proposed six suburban clusters or types including three "at risk" types (segregated, older, low-density), two types of suburban jobs centers (best off fiscally), and bedroom suburbs. Similarly, Mikelbank (2004) used cluster analysis to create a typology of U.S. census-defined suburbs based on demographic characteristics, economic variables, physical features, and some aspects of government. Data were drawn from the population, economic, and government censuses.…”

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Defining Suburbs

Forsyth

2012

Journal of Planning Literature

137

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There is no consensus as to what exactly constitutes a suburb. This paper examines the range of suburban definitions in terms of their structure and the topical issues that they grapple with. Suburbs have been defined according to many different dimensions from location and transportation modes to culture and physical appearance. Given this confusion, one approach is to abandon the term; another is to use it with greater precision. This is more than just an issue of semantics. Rather how people talk and think about suburbs shapes how they can see such areas being developed and redeveloped in the future.2 Defining Suburbs The Problem of DefinitionWhat is a suburb? In the coming decades billions of people will move to urban areas. The middle projection from the United Nations is that from 2010 to 2050 the world's urban population will increase from 3.5 billion to 6.3 billion, that is by 80% (U.N. 2010, 29; Clapson and Hutchinson 2010). Many of these new urban dwellers will live in areas that are suburban. How many people, and what that means, depends heavily on how suburbs are defined. This paper explores this issue of how to define suburbs. This is more than just an issue of semantics. As a vibrant literature on framing in planning work suggests, how urbanists, the press, and the public talk and think about suburbs shapes how they can see such areas being developed and redeveloped in the future (Caplan and Nelson, 1973;Rein and Schon 1994;Healey 2009). In coming decades, as new suburban areas are built and older ones head toward redevelopment, clearer definitions, or better alternatives to the term suburb, can help focus academic and practical debates on important issues.

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Defining Suburbs

Forsyth

2012

Journal of Planning Literature

137

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“…Few studies of community sustainability have approached a sample size as large as the one employed here, with the notable exception of Opp and Saunders [18], which employs the same policy dataset. Other relevant comparisons can be found in classifications of urban-suburban place types, which employ similar socio-demographic variables and derive similar factors, but which do not engage directly with sustainability [20,22,23,41]. Our work extends these and other earlier analyses into a meaningful matchup of community characteristics and sustainability plans and policies that controls for the effects of state level policy mandates.…”

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“…Possible socio-demographic variables for analysis were identified in consultation with research into the relevant themes discussed in the opening section including: community resilience and adaptive social capacity [31][32][33][34] measures of community vulnerability [35,36], sustainability indicators [37][38][39], and previously referenced work on socio-demographic correlates of sustainable plans and policies [1,9,17,18,31] and urban form and community or neighborhood classification [19][20][21][22][23]40].…”

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“…Socio-demographic variables, particularly race or ethnicity, affluence/poverty, level or type of employment, and population size/density again feature heavily in these studies as readily obtainable and understandable points of comparison between places. Of particular interest to this paper, multivariate cluster analyses have been introduced in a range of environmentally-and geographically-oriented social science research ranging from classifying differentiations in types of suburbs (e.g., Hanlon [22] and Mikelbank [23]) to creating typologies of community opportunity and vulnerability (e.g., Stimson et al [25]) or municipal governance regimes (e.g., Stone [26,27]). …”

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Who is Next? Identifying Communities with the Potential for Increased Implementation of Sustainability Policies and Programs

Nye

Mulvaney

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Understanding the system of connections between societal contexts and policy outcomes in municipal governments provides important insights into how community sustainability happens, and why it happens differently in various communities. A growing body of research in recent years has focused on understanding the socio-economic characteristics of communities and cities that are recognized as policy leaders in sustainability. In this paper, we expand the focus beyond the leaders in sustainability as we apply a selection of socio-demographic influences of community sustainability to a large sample of U.S. communities using community classification analytics to identity a range of community types and levels of engagement with sustainability. Our typology presents an integrated and comprehensive perspective on the structure of community sustainability in the United States, highlighting key points of comparison between human capital factors such as population size and density, affluence, home ownership, and adoption of sustainability policy. The analysis provides new insights not only about community leaders in sustainability, but also communities with the civic and social capacity to do more, and the challenges that may inhibit sustainability efforts in others.

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“…This examination is important because recent research has demonstrated that suburban areas differ widely in their socioeconomic characteristics and in the types of opportunities they offer, with lower income suburbs demonstrating slower employment growth (and faster population growth) over the recent decade that is likely to negatively influence employment opportunity and economic mobility prospects more generally. Today, the quality of the suburbs varies tremendously (Kneebone & Berube, 2013;Mikelbank, 2004;Lee-Chuvala, 2012) potentially causing a wide distribution in the desirability of suburban neighborhoods. Therefore, an important question is which type of suburbs are the poor disproportionately located?…”

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Poverty Suburbanization: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Analyses

Covington

2015

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Today almost every major metropolitan area in the U.S. has experienced rising poverty at a rate that surpasses its urban core (Kneebone & Berube, 2013, p. 2). Poverty suburbanization has accelerated about 3.3 percentage points over the last decade. In this article, factors associated with the growing share of poor in suburbs in the 100 largest metropolitan areas were examined. The analysis sought to address the overarching question: what metropolitan factors are associated with poverty suburbanization? Poverty suburbanization growth rates and temporal changes in metropolitan level factors for 2000 and 2008 are highlighted. Change regression results reveal important macro level and within suburb effects illuminating recent changes in the spatial distribution of the poor. Positive changes in housing affordability appear to open up access to suburban neighborhoods, while metropolitan job decentralization and residential segregation have countervailing effects on the suburbanization of the poor. Findings from this paper suggest that it is appropriate to place the suburbanization of poverty in the contemporary period within an urban political economy framework of urban growth and change.

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A typology of U.S. suburban places

Cited by 115 publications

References 16 publications

Defining Suburbs

Defining Suburbs

Who is Next? Identifying Communities with the Potential for Increased Implementation of Sustainability Policies and Programs

Poverty Suburbanization: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Analyses

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