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- Title
DEVELOPING PATTERNS OF URBAN DECENTRALIZATION.
- Authors
Gist, Noel P.
- Abstract
The older pattern of urban decentralization, characteristic of the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, seems to have been confined mainly to a suburban trend. In this type of movement most of the families remained within easy access of public transportation lines and extensions of city water, gas and electric facilities. The so-called "urban fringe" has been the focus of a number of studies. The new centrifugal movement, which is in the process of development, has by no means displaced the older form of decentralization, but is, in a sense, an extension of the traditional march to the suburbs. These ecological changes probably could not, or at least would not, have occurred without the benefit of certain technological developments. But technology alone does not explain these ecological changes. Economic and social-psychological factors have also presumably operated toward the decentralizing trend. Over the past decade there has been a general rise in real incomes, particularly for the business classes, independent professionals, organized wage earners, and farmers. The rising level of living for some of these favored groups has often been exhibited in a movement to the suburbs or the open country.
- Subjects
URBAN growth; URBAN fringe; TRANSPORTATION; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; DECENTRALIZATION in government; SOCIOECONOMICS
- Publication
Social Forces, 1952, Vol 30, Issue 3, p257
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2571590