Poverty Suburbanization: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Analyses

Covington, Kenya

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“…The suburbanisation of poverty Scholars have suggested several potential reasons for the suburbanisation of poverty since the 1990s. To a large degree, research has focused on the role of population flows -the migration of low-income households from central-city neighbourhoods to outlying communities -as a primary source of growing suburban poverty (Covington, 2015;Holliday and Dwyer, 2009). While there is little direct empirical evidence linking population migration with growing suburban poverty, several analyses emphasise circumstantial links between these factors.…”

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Residential mobility and the geography of low-income households

Schouten

2020

Urban Studies

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In contrast to the traditional image of suburban communities as stable and secure enclaves surrounding a more volatile urban core, scholars have noted considerable increases in suburban poverty over the past several decades. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1999 to 2015 and a seven-category neighbourhood typology, this analysis seeks to better understand the growing economic distress of suburban areas in two stages: first by examining the degree to which low-income residents have left urban communities for suburban neighbourhoods; and second by identifying the types of low-income households that have made urban-to-suburban moves. Results show that although low-income households rapidly suburbanised during the study period, higher-income households left urban areas for suburban neighbourhoods at nearly the same rate. This finding suggests that while the overall number of economically disadvantaged residents in the suburbs has grown, population flows have had only a modest impact on the income composition of suburban neighbourhoods. Results also highlight important differences between low-income households that suburbanised during the study period and those that remained in urban communities. In particular, urban-to-suburban movers were more likely to be white, had more household resources and lived in origin neighbourhoods with fewer urban characteristics than the origin neighbourhoods of those who relocated within central-city areas.

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Residential mobility and the geography of low-income households

Schouten

2020

Urban Studies

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“…Scholars have detected evidence of poverty suburbanization in many metropolitan regions from the 1990s (Raphael & Stoll, 2010;Howell & Timberlake, 2014;Kneebone & Nadeau, 2015;Allard, 2017). This trend of poverty suburbanization may have reduced central cities' economic burden, and some poor residents who moved to mid-or high-income suburbs have been better off with greater access to jobs and opportunities (Covington, 2015). However, Covington (2015) also noted that about 40 percent of suburban poor population lived in lowincome areas and that the trend has generated new poverty concentrations in suburban locations.…”

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Concentration or diffusion? Exploring the emerging spatial dynamics of poverty distribution in Southern California

Tong

Kim

2019

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While urban poverty has been known to be spatially concentrated in inner city areas for a long time, the degree of poverty concentration has declined substantially since the 1990s, whereas poverty has increasingly expanded to suburban areas to which relatively little attention has been paid. This study examines how poverty distribution has changed in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Combined Statistical Area and why. More specifically, an investigation is made to capture the detailed changes of poverty rates in over three thousand census tracts over the last two decades and to identify the major forces behind these spatiotemporal changes by employing spatial regression models. Results show that high poverty areas have stretched over space, not in a way that expands their overall size but in a way that increases the degree of spatial fragmentation throughout the last two decades. The results also reveal that neighborhood poverty change is largely shaped by wealth clustering and other spatially-explicit processes.

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“…Si bien en los primeros estadios de los procesos de suburbanización tuvieron (y aún mantienen) gran importancia relativa las clases medias, y medias-altas (Susino, 2003;Susino y Duque, 2013), lo cierto es que en los últimos años se está agudizando la tendencia de la suburbanización de la pobreza (Randolph y Holloway, 2005;Cooke, 2010;Cooke y Denton, 2015;Covington, 2015), es decir, la movilidad residencial de las clases populares hacia las periferias suburbanas. Entre las causas de este proceso podríamos destacar el incremento de los costes económicos, pero especialmente temporales, que implican los desplazamientos por trabajo y ocio de los grupos más pudientes suburbanitas, que les lleva a retornar a la ciudad.…”

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¿Seleccionan las ciudades a su población? Tendencias de selectividad residencial en las cabeceras metropolitanas andaluzas

Torrado¹

2018

Cuadernos Geográficos

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ResumenTras la generalización de los procesos metropolitanos y la reciente especialización en la nueva economía de los servicios, las cabeceras metropolitanas están sufriendo un proceso de reconfiguración socio-demográfica, según el cual determinados grupos son atraídos hacia ellas, mientras otros, son progresivamente desplazados a las periferias suburbanas, extrapolándose la división social del espacio a escala metropolitana. El objetivo del presente trabajo consiste en ahondar en el papel que juegan las dinámicas de movilidad residencial en dicho proceso, para conocer si las cabeceras seleccionan de algún modo a sus habitantes. Para ello utilizaremos el Censo 2011 para Andalucía, del cual disponemos de una explotación propia que cuenta con una delimitación de las áreas metropolitanas la cual permite definir diferentes flujos de movilidad residencial según origen y destino. Nuestro objetivo es analizar, a través de modelos de regresión logística multinomial, la propensión que tienen los individuos, en función de sus características, de realizar cada uno de los movimientos contemplados, para acercarnos así a los factores de atracción y repulsión de las cabeceras metropolitanas. Entre los principales hallazgos del trabajo se encuentra el demostrar que, aunque incipientes, ya operan tendencias que nos permiten hablar de cierta selectividad residencial.Palabras clave: Movilidad residencial; áreas metropolitanas; cabeceras metropolitanas; selectividad migratoria; reconfiguración social Abstract Do the cities select their population? Residential selectivity trends in Andalusian inner-citiesAfter the generalization of metropolitan processes and the recent specialization in the new services economy, inner-cities are undergoing a process of socio-demographic reconfiguration, according to which certain groups are attracted to them, while others are progressively displaced to the Metropolitan peripheries, extrapolating the spatial social division on a metropolitan scale. The objective of the present work is to delve into the role played by the dynamics of residential mobility in this process, in order to know if inner-cities select in some way the inhabitants. To do this we will use the data from the 2011 Census for Andalusia, of which we own a particular 1. Este trabajo es fruto del sub-proyecto «Procesos de reconfiguración social metropolitana» (CSO2014-55780-C3-3-P) , dentro del proyecto coordinado de investigación «Movilidad y ciudad real: dinámicas y cambios territoriales y sociales en España» (CSO2014-55780-C3), financiado por el Torrado, J. M. (2018). ¿Seleccionan las ciudades a su población?Cuadernos Geográficos 57(2), 211-236 explotation wich include a delimitation of the metropolitan areas that allows defining different residential mobility flows with origin and destination in the cities. Our objective is to analyze, through two multinomial logistic regression models, the propensity of individuals, according to their characteristics, to perform each of the movements contemplated, in order to approach the factors...

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Poverty Suburbanization: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Analyses

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

Residential mobility and the geography of low-income households

Residential mobility and the geography of low-income households

Concentration or diffusion? Exploring the emerging spatial dynamics of poverty distribution in Southern California

¿Seleccionan las ciudades a su población? Tendencias de selectividad residencial en las cabeceras metropolitanas andaluzas

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