Delineate the U.S. suburb: An examination of how different definitions of the suburbs matter

Airgood-Obrycki, Whitney; Hanlon, Bernadette; Rieger, Shannon

doi:10.1080/07352166.2020.1727294

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“…However, defining cities and suburbs has never been easy, and different researchers have chosen different classification methods that were the most appropriate for their research question. While each approach has its own advantages and disadvantages, the ambiguity has been one of the reasons that researchers have reached different conclusions on population growth in urban and suburban areas (Airgood-Obrycki et al, 2020;Drew, 2015;Lee, 2020). Therefore, this paper reviews various approaches proposed to define central areas and suburbs, show the results based on them, and discuss similarities and differences across them.…”

Section: The Changing Geography Of Young Adult Population: Methods and Datamentioning

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Are Millennials leaving town? Reconciling peak Millennials and youthification hypotheses

Lee

2021

International Journal of Urban Sciences

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Are Millennials leaving town? Yes, they are. Are young adults leaving town? No, they are not. The seemingly contradicting answers are due to the fact that age and birth cohort are distinct concepts. Showing how these two phenomena can coexist, this paper aims to provide detailed and timely information on how Millennials are faring compared to previous generations in the United States. Using the 1962-2019 Current Population Survey (CPS), the paper first analyzes the current status of Millennials, in terms of various demographic and socio-economic dimensions, and compares them with those of older generations at the same ages. The results indicate that Millennials did experience delays in transition into adulthood, but they have started to catch up in recent years. Then this paper examines the residential location of young adults and Millennials across metropolitan status, and across urban and suburban areas of the largest 50 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the United States. The analysis based on the confidential version of the 2006-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) microdata confirms that the early Millennials have started to migrate from urban to suburban areas, consistent with the peak Millennial hypothesis, and that the urban presence of young adults has increased over time, consistent with the youthification hypothesis. Reconciling the two hypotheses, this paper discusses the implications of ongoing demographic shifts for the future urban landscape.

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Section: The Changing Geography Of Young Adult Population: Methods and Datamentioning

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Are Millennials leaving town? Reconciling peak Millennials and youthification hypotheses

Lee

2021

International Journal of Urban Sciences

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“…The result of the study also in line with the current debate on suburban dynamics, that there is strong evidence of variation within the suburbs themselves. There is great variation along the urban/suburban spectrum, and the socio-economic characteristics of inner suburbs are more like urban areas than they are like outer suburbs (Airgood-Obrycki, Hanlon, & Rieger, 2020).…”

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Measuring neighbourhood hardships and neighbourhood change between 2010-2015 in suburban neighbourhoods of Buffalo Metropolitan Area, New York

Saleh¹

2021

Geographica Pannonica

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Neighbourhoods in urban and suburban areas experienced changes in terms of physical, social, economic, and demographics. Neighbourhood Hardship Index (NHI) had been used to measure neighbourhood socio-economic condition, using various census variables. Suburban neighbourhoods which underwent a change lead to stratification into striving outer suburbs and declining inner suburbs. The context of this study was suburban neighbourhoods in Buffalo Metropolitan Area (BMA), New York. This paper aimed at highlighting spatial variability of neighbourhood change in innerand outer-suburban neighbourhoods of BMA between 2010-2015. This study examined factors that significantly contribute to neighbourhood change. Also, this study examined whether there a difference in the change of neighbourhood hardship index between innerand outer-suburban neighbourhoods. Composite NHI was developed from economic, demographic, and housing variables. Neighbourhood change was measured by comparing the composite NHI 2010 with that of 2015. The findings depicted a variation of change in hardships index across suburban neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods with higher hardship index were primarily located in inner suburbs. Policy implications call for concerted efforts to tackle the decline in the economy, education, demography to promote equity across neighbourhoods in suburban areas.

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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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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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Delineate the U.S. suburb: An examination of how different definitions of the suburbs matter

Cited by 38 publications

References 31 publications

Are Millennials leaving town? Reconciling peak Millennials and youthification hypotheses

Are Millennials leaving town? Reconciling peak Millennials and youthification hypotheses

Measuring neighbourhood hardships and neighbourhood change between 2010-2015 in suburban neighbourhoods of Buffalo Metropolitan Area, New York

Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction

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