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The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model

Department of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA, bhanlon1{at}umbc.edu

Thomas Vicino

School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington, 601 S. Neddennan Drive, Arlington, TX 76019, USA, vicino{at}uta.edu

John Rennie Short

Department of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA, jrs{at}umbc.edu

This paper critically evaluates the traditional metropolitan model of an urban core and a homogeneous suburban ring. Using place data from the US Bureau of the Census from 1980 to 2000, it examines 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US. Poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places. The results suggest the need for more subtle frameworks in order better to understand the structure of contemporary metropolitan areas.

Urban Studies, Vol. 43, No. 12, 2129-2143 (2006)
DOI: 10.1080/00420980600936525


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