Did Suburbanization Cause Residential Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Cause or Consequence? Suburbanization and Crime in U.S Metropolitan Areas

Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization

In the United States, 69 percent of the population lived in what the government statisticians call metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in 1970, 75 percent in 1980 and 77 percent in 1990. But while a greater proportion of the population is living in urban areas broadly defined, a smaller proportion is living and working in the central cities. In the 1950s, 57 percent of MSA residents and 70 pe...

Racial Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas and Cities, 1990–2000: Patterns, Trends, and Explanations

This report provides a comprehensive overview of 1990 and 2000 neighborhood dissimilarity indices measured for Blacks and Whites, Asians and Whites, and Hispanics and Whites among the nation’s 318 metropolitan areas, as well as 1220 places with populations exceeding 25,000 in 2000. Unlike most earlier studies which measure segregation on the basis of census tracts, this study measures segregati...

Should the PC be Considered a Technological Revolution? Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas