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- Title
Some Dynamics of Central City-Suburban Interactions.
- Authors
Bradbury, Katharine L.; Downs, Anthony; Small, Kenneth A.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the decline of cities relative to their suburbs in the U.S. There is a lot of concern in the country about the decline of cities. People in the country are getting increasingly concerned by factors such as loss of population, loss of jobs, increasing rates of unemployment, fall in the relative incomes, increase in the levels of local taxation, decline in the levels of public service, as well as increasing racial and economic segregation. As outlined by many authors, if members of different groups have a strong prejudice against living or interacting with people belonging to other groups, it might result in an unstable equilibrium mixture of residents. Even if cases, where the composition of the society is agreeable to different groups, any deviation from it results in further deviation. There are a number of ways in which high taxes and/or poor services in cities result in further deterioration as compared to those in suburban areas. The total costs for many local government services are not in proportion to the population they serve, due to the fixed levels of infrastructure or overheads.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CITIES &; towns; POPULATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; INCOME; LOCAL taxation; RACISM; SOCIAL groups; SUBURBS
- Publication
American Economic Review, 1980, Vol 70, Issue 2, p410
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article