n The poor are more suburbanized in metropolitan areas with greater employment decentralization. Overall, the poor are generally less likely to live in suburbs than the non-poor (55.8 percent versus 70.9 percent). Metropolitan areas with both high suburbanization of poverty and job sprawl are somewhat larger and lie mostly in the South and West, including Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle,...

Using census data from 1960 to 2021, this graphic reveals how suburban municipalities evolved representing less than 19% of the population in mainland Portugal almost 39%. In particular, constitute only group for which doubling size occurred more often not. At same time, Lisbon and Porto, central cities two metropolitan areas, lost 32% 24%, respectively, their population. The paper concludes by...

This article uses 2020 Census data to document recent trends in suburbanization, ethnoracial diversity, and residential segregation the United States. It considers variation across inner-ring suburbs, outlying exurban areas at metropolitan (metro) fringe. Suburbanization has recently continued, albeit more slowly than 1990s 2000s. Nearly two-thirds of all metro residents now live fueled by chan...

As cities grow, what happens to urban form and how does that change traffic conditions? How does growing traffic affect urban structure? These questions have received considerable theoretical and empirical attention over the last 25 years. They relate to the NIMBY debate, which associates most new development with traffic problems. Yet, until recently, substantial evidence tended to show that u...

Urbanization has been known to alter the hydrologic characteristics of a watershed. This study empirically assesses this notion by investigating the relationship of developed land use/land cover (LULC) changes and surface runoff generation. We examine the Cypress Creek watershed, where its recent development pressure is significantly high due to the rapid growth of Houston, Texas. The watershed...

The last decade of urbanization throughout many cities have seen a perceptible shift in the demand for centralized urban amenities while poverty has increasingly decentralized. Yet, opportunity landscape these shifting geographies and prosperity are not well understood. In this article, we examine how access to employment low-income households been impacted as result changing geographies. Using...

The new town concept originated from the ideal city model of Ebenezer Howard and expanded from Europe to America in the 1900s. It has reemerged as a site for accommodating population from highly dense urban centers of China and India since the early twenty-first century. The massive infusion of public and private investments has enabled the emergence of new towns in China and India as planned c...