Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States

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List of Illustrations TEXT 1.1 Standard and Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index in the United States from 1987 to the second quarter of 2008 6 1.2 Visual representation of the location of inner-ring suburbs and outer suburbs across different census regions of the United States 8 3.1 Inner-ring suburbs, outer suburbs, and older outer suburbs in Cleveland-Akron CMSA 36 5.1 Population change in all suburbs, inner-ring suburbs, and outer suburbs by census region from 1980 to 2000 57 5.2 Population change in the cities and suburbs of St. Louis MSA from 1980 to 2000 61 5.3 Population change in the cities and suburbs of Chicago CMSA from 1980 to 2000 63 5.4 Change in the number of residents and the number of immigrants in a random sample of inner-ring suburbs from 1980 to 2000 66 6.1 Scatter plots for each census region that compare the poverty rates among inner-ring suburbs in 1980 to the poverty rates among inner-ring suburbs in 2000 72 6.2 Percentage of inner-ring suburbs by census region categorized as high poverty in 1980 and 2000 74 6.3 Scatter plots for each census region that compare the poverty rates among outer suburbs in 1980 to the poverty rates among outer suburbs in 2000 78 6.4 Suburbs in the Los Angeles CMSA where poverty increased and declined from 1980 to 2000 79 6.5 Percentage of outer suburbs by census region categorized as high poverty in 1980 and 2000 80 6.6 Percentage of suburbs by census region categorized as poor in 1980 and 2000 84 6.7 Percentage of suburbs by census region categorized as affluent in 1980 and 2000 85 6.8 Poor and affluent suburbs in New York CMSA in 1980 86 6.9 Poor and affluent suburbs in New York CMSA in 2000 87 6.10 Poor and affluent suburbs in Washington, D.C.–Baltimore CMSA in 1980 88 6.11 Poor and affluent suburbs in Washington, D.C.–Baltimore CMSA in 2000 89 7.1 Suburbs in crisis, stable suburbs, and advancing suburbs in Los Angeles CMSA 102 7.2 Suburbs in crisis, stable suburbs, and advancing suburbs in Chicago CMSA 105 9.1 Priority funding areas in Maryland 137 APPENDIX A.1 Suburban places within Baltimore County 163 A.2 Scatter plot that compares the index score and change in the median household income ratio of each suburb from 1980 to 2000 173 A.3 Plot of the relationship between standardized measure population variables and standardized measure income/poverty variables for a random sample of suburbs 176 x / List of Illustrations ...