The Decline of Inner Suburbs: The New Suburban Gothic in the United States

Short, John Rennie; Hanlon, Bernadette; Vicino, Thomas J.

doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00020.x

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“…A great deal has been written over the past few years about the increasing diversity of suburbs, the changing geographies of race and class in the American metropolis and the growing poverty in both inner‐ring suburbs and on the urban fringe (see, for example, Lucy and Phillips, 2001; Murphy, 2007; Short et al ., 2007; Vicino, 2008). This attention should come as no surprise, as it alters one of the fundamental dialectics most living Americans grew up with — that of the decaying inner city and the wealthier suburbs.…”

Section: Ships Passing In the Nightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Schafran¹

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Communities on the fringes of the American metropolis have recently garnered attention as the centers of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath. On the one hand, this attention to the urban nature of the crisis is welcome, as the metamorphosis of the mortgage fiasco into a financial crisis‐cum‐global economic meltdown turned popular attention away from the urban roots of this calamity. But this emphasis on the exurbs as the site of crisis lends itself to the misconception that they, rather than the restructuring of the metropolis as a whole, are the sole source of the crisis. This article works across multiple scales to examine how three interwoven factors — demographics, policy and capital — each reacted to the San Francisco Bay Area landscape inherited at the end of the 1970s, affecting the region in new ways, leaving some places thriving and others struggling with foreclosure, which leads to plummeting property values and the deep uncertainty of the current American metropolis. This restructuring can be seen as the convergence between the unresolved urban crisis of the postwar era and the various reactions in the neoliberal era. It demands a reimagining of both planning and geography, especially from the left. Résumé Les communautés vivant à la périphérie des métropoles américaines ont récemment suscité l’attention comme pôles de la crise des saisies hypothécaires et de ses conséquences. Cet intérêt pour la nature urbaine de la crise est opportun, car la métamorphose du fiasco immobilier en crise financière alliée à un effondrement de l’économie mondiale a détourné l’attention des racines urbaines de ce désastre. Cependant, pointer ainsi les périphéries comme sites de la crise cautionne l’idée fausse selon laquelle elles seules en sont la source, et non la restructuration urbaine dans son ensemble. Cette analyse opère à plusieurs échelons afin d’examiner comment trois facteurs entrelacés (démographie, politique et capital) ont chacun réagi au paysage de Bay Area hérité de la fin des années 1970, dans la région métropolitaine de San Francisco. Celle‐ci a été affectée de façons nouvelles, laissant certains lieux florissants et d’autres aux prises avec les saisies hypothécaires, la situation conduisant à l’effondrement de l’immobilier et à une incertitude profonde de la métropole américaine actuelle. On peut envisager cette restructuration comme la convergence de la crise urbaine non résolue de l’après‐guerre avec les diverses réponses données à l’époque néolibérale. Cela implique de réimaginer à la fois l’urbanisme et la géographie, en particulier de la part de la Gauche.

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Section: Ships Passing In the Nightmentioning

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Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Schafran¹

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…At the same time, the increasing suburbanization of poverty (Holliday and Dwyer 2009;Kneebone and Berube 2013;Raphael and Stoll 2010) and the growth of immigration outside of urban areas (Wilson and Svajlenka 2014) have underscored the economic and racial diversity in suburbs around the country. Many of those inner-ring suburbs have experienced significant declines over the past few decades (Short et al 2007). Many of those inner-ring suburbs have experienced significant declines over the past few decades (Short et al 2007).…”

Section: Perceptions Of the Urbanmentioning

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Identifying the Urban: Resident Perceptions of Community Character and Local Institutions in Eight Metropolitan Areas

Billingham

Kimelberg

2018

City & Community

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What does the term "urban" signify as a descriptor of contemporary communities in the United States? We investigate this question using data from the Soul of the Community survey, examining how people within eight metropolitan areas characterize their communities. A substantial disjunction exists between where within their regions respondents live and how they describe those areas. Many central-city residents label their communities "suburban" or "rural," while many outlying residents label their communities "urban." We contend that people's experiences with important local institutions-specifically, local schools and the local public safety apparatus-shape their understanding of their communities. Logistic regression models support this contention. Controlling for where within their regions respondents live, they are more likely to label their communities "urban" if they perceive local schools to be low in quality and their neighborhoods to be unsafe. Notably, these effects are not consistent across racial and ethnic groups.

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“…Son también interesantes los trabajos llevados a cabo por ecólogos como Rueda (1998Rueda ( , 2002, Folch (1998) -López (2008-López ( , 2010 se investiga la relación entre descentralización de la población y densidad en un contexto policéntrico, y en Garcia-López y Muñiz (2010) y Garcia-López (2006) se lleva a cabo un estudio similar para el empleo. También diferentes trabajos han puesto de manifiesto la posibilidad de que los municipios dormitorio de la primera corona, urbanizados mediante polígonos de vivienda masiva durante las décadas de los sesenta y setenta, estén experimentando lo que se ha dado en llamar gothic urbanization (Short, Hanlon & Vicini, 2007); esto es, un proceso prematuro de decadencia, debido a la corta edad del stock de viviendas, que los está convirtiendo en espacios de precariedad. Su localización y dotación de infraestructuras de transporte, y el perfil laboral de sus habitantes, han impedido que dichos municipios participen del dinamismo económico, tanto del centro principal como de los nuevos barrios suburbanos de baja densidad localizados en la periferia de la región (Ferrer, 2003;Muñiz & Roig, 2001).…”

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Anatomía de la dispersión urbana en Barcelona

Muñiz

García-López

2013

EURE (Santiago)

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The Decline of Inner Suburbs: The New Suburban Gothic in the United States

Cited by 75 publications

References 13 publications

Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure

Identifying the Urban: Resident Perceptions of Community Character and Local Institutions in Eight Metropolitan Areas

Anatomía de la dispersión urbana en Barcelona

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