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- Title
Suburbanization in the Sixties: A Preliminary Analysis.
- Authors
Schnore, Leo F.; Klaff, Vivian Zelig
- Abstract
This paper reports on the growth of metropolitan central cities and rings in the United States, 1960-1970, according to preliminary 1970 census data. The present study undertakes an analysis of 1960 and "preliminary" 1970 census data for 230 Standard Metropolitian Statistical Areas in the United States. Prior research on the 1950's showed the extent to which the suburban "ring" -that part of the SMSA outside the politically-bounded central city-was capturing an overwhelming share of metropolitian growth. This was especially evident when the effect of city annexation of ring territory was taken into account. This paper examines the growth and redistribution of metropolitian population, comparing the 1950's with the 1960's, using data that have not been adjusted for annexation. All present indications of the extent. s.uburbanization in the 60's are thus conservative estimates. When data on the territory and population annexed between 1950 and 1960 become available, the already substantial suburbanization in the 1960's will be more. evident. The 1960's were marked by the lowest rates of metropolitian and nonmetropolitan growth since the 1930's, but the process of suburbanization continued apace. Indexes of (1) metropolitian and nonmetropolitian growth and (2) central city and ring growth were presented for the 1950's and 1960's. Despite the lower rates of overall metropolitian growth in the 1960's, suburbanization was a persistent trend.. Moreover, suburbanization continued to show variation in accordance with three key variables: (1) regional and divisional location, (2) size of the SMSA, and (3) age of the central city (as indicated by the date at which the city first contained 50,000 inhabitants). Analyst of other variables of interest will have to await the availability of the requisite "final" counts of numbers and characteristics of the 1970 population from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SUBURBS; URBAN growth; POPULATION; SUBURBANIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; METROPOLITAN areas; STANDARD metropolitan statistical areas
- Publication
Land Economics, 1972, Vol 48, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145636