Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy

Policy-makers have pursued numerous strategies to respond to the conditions of decline.

Waterfront redevelopment is one of most common strategies to address these issues, although the benefits rarely extend beyond the core. We conclude by reflecting on policy impactions and questions on urban sustainability. A typology of urban immigrant neighborhoods more.

Using census data from , the authors examine differentiation among urban immigrant neighborhoods in a sample of U. They use principal components analysis PCA followed by cluster analysis to identify four types They use principal components analysis PCA followed by cluster analysis to identify four types of urban immigrant neighborhoods: This typology describes the diversity of immigrant populations and immigrant neighborhoods across the urban U.

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This article analyzes data on A total of 49 socioeconomic variables are used to measure the population, income dynamics, nature of the housing, and structure of the labor force. The analysis provides evidence of spatial restructuring in and A typology of five neighborhoods in and six in is derived from a partitional clustering procedure that groups principal components analysis scores.

The policy implications of suburban diversity and decline are discussed. There is a vast multidisciplinary literature on U.

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Through an urban historical lens, this article charts the public policies that gave way to the rise of a suburban society. It explores the evolution of scholarly historical It explores the evolution of scholarly historical thought on the roles that political processes and public policies played in the development of the suburban landscape.

Major political and social movements, including the areas of housing, transportation, and race relations, are surveyed. The future prospects for metropolitan America suggest that politics and policy contributed to complex social, economic, and political realities that confront suburbs in an era of uncontrolled urban sprawl and mounting suburban decline.

The Quest to Confront Suburban Decline: Political Realities and Lessons more. The social and economic decline of first-tier suburbs has emerged as an important issue in metropolitan America, yet little is known about the political and policy responses to this problem. An analysis of Baltimore County demonstrates An analysis of Baltimore County demonstrates that the local government was able to implement revitalization projects from to since it had jurisdiction over its first-tier suburbs.

Characteristics such as a large population in both first-tier and outer suburbs, an affluent tax base, and the lack of municipalities allowed Baltimore County to redistribute funds for these projects. I argue that if policymakers and planners are serious about confronting suburban decline, then either a regional growth boundary or a regional zoning tool is necessary to slow the pressures of urban decentralization. The political realities suggest that the will to maintain local autonomy is stronger than the will to eliminate the real barriers to revitalizing first-tier suburbs.

The Decline of Inner Suburbs: Megalopolis 50 Years On: The Transformation of a City Region more. His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a benchmark for reexamining the His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a benchmark for reexamining the socio-spatial transformations of a city region. After redefining Megalopolis and showing major aggregate trends since , we analyze 39 selected variables for place level census data for 2, places to perform a principal components analysis PCA. A half century of urban restructuring demonstrates that the forces of urban decentralization have made the region a more fully suburbanized agglomeration.

We reveal a complex socioeconomic pattern of a vast urban area structured by class, education, housing tenure, housing age, and race and ethnicity. The cluster analysis reveals five distinct clusters of urban places identified by our PCA: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. The Fate of Inner Suburbs: Evidence From Metropolitan Baltimore more. Rethinking the Traditional Model more. Local Immigration Legislation in Two Suburbs: The New American Suburb: Cities of North America: Contemporary Challenges in U.

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