Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000

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Introduction 1 Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert E. Lang 1 Demographic Change in Medium-Sized Cities 9 Jennifer S. Vey and Benjamin Forman 2 Who Lives Downtown? 29 Eugenie L. Birch 3 Growth Counties: Home to America’s New Suburban Metropolis 61 Robert E. Lang and Meghan Zimmerman Gough 4 Are the Boomburbs Still Booming? 83 Robert E. Lang 5 Living Together: A New Look at Racial and Ethnic Integration in Metropolitan Neighborhoods, 1990–2000 93 David Fasenfest, Jason Booza, and Kurt Metzger 6 Modest Progress: The Narrowing Spatial Mismatch between Blacks and Jobs in the 1990s 119 Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll 7 Pulling Apart: Economic Segregation in Suburbs and Central Cities in Major Metropolitan Areas, 1980–2000 143 Todd Swanstrom, Peter Dreier, Colleen Casey, and Robert Flack v Contents 8 Vacating the City: An Analysis of New Home Construction and Household Growth 167 Thomas Bier and Charlie Post 9 Tracking American Trends into the Twenty-First Century: A Field Guide to the New Metropolitan and Micropolitan Definitions 191 William H. Frey, Jill H. Wilson, Alan Berube, and Audrey Singer 10 Micropolitan America: A Brand New Geography 235 Robert E. Lang and Dawn Dhavale Contributors 259 Index 261 vi Contents Redefining Urban and Suburban America ...