On the 'urbanness' of metropolitan areas: Testing the homogeneity assumption, 1970-2000

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 589-613

  Porter, Jeremy R ^a   Howell, Frank M ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; LULC; Metropolitan classification; Population trends 1970 2000; Remote sensing; Urban

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; GIS; HOMOGENEITY; LAND USE; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 70350159236     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-008-9121-6     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Anselin, L. (1995). Local indicators of spatial association - LISA. Geographical Analysis, 27, 93-115.
2. Bailey, K. (1994). "Typologies and taxonomies: An introduction to classification techniques". #102: Quantitative applications in the social sciences series. London: Sage.
3. Bogue, D. J. (1950). Changes in population distribution since 1940. American Journal of Sociology, 56(1), 43-57. doi: 10.1086/220642.
4. Brown, D. L., & Zuiches, J. J. (1993). Rural-urban population redistribution in the united states at the end of the twentieth century. In D. L. Brown, D. Field, & J. J. Zuiches (Eds.), The demography of rural life (pp. 1-18). University Park, PA: Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.
5. Frey, W. H. (1987). Migration and depopulation of the metropolis: Regional restructuring or rural renaissance? American Sociological Review, 52(2), 240-257. doi: 10.2307/2095452.
6. Frey, W. H., & Spear, A., Jr. (1992). The revival of the metropolitan population growth in the United States: An assessment of findings from the 1990 census. Population and Development Review, 18(1), 129-146. doi: 10.2307/1971864.
7. Fuguitt, G. V., Heaton, T. B., & Lichter, D. T. (1988). Monitoring the metropolitanization process. Demography, 25(1), 115-128. doi: 10.2307/2061481.
8. GARM. (1994). "Geographical Areas Reference Manual". U.S. Department of Commerce: Bureau of the Census. Issued November 1994.
9. Gaspar, J., & Glaeser, E. (1997). Information technology and the future of cities. Journal of Urban Economics, 43, 136-156. doi: 10.1006/ juec.1996.2031.
10. Glaeser, E., & Kahn, M. (2004). Sprawl and urban growth. In J. V. Henderson & J. F. Thisse (Eds.), Handbook of regional and urban economics (Vol. 4, Chapter 56, pp. 2482-2525). NY, USA: North Holland Press.
11. Glaeser, E., Scheinkman, J., & Shleifer, A. (1995). Economic growth in a cross-section of cities. Journal of Monetary Economics, 36, 117-143. doi: 10.1016/0304-3932(95)01206-2.
12. Halfacree, K. (2004). Rethinking rurality. In T. Chapman & G. Hugo (Eds.), New forms of urbanization: Beyond the urban-rural dichotomy. Bodmin, Cornwall: MPG Books Ltd.
13. Hawley, A. (1950). (Reprinted in 1986). Human ecology: A theoretical essay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
14. Homer, C., & Gallant, A. (2000). Partitioning the conterminous United States into mapping zones for Landsat TM land cover mapping. USGS, Chapter 1, National Mapping Division.
15. Isserman, A. M. (2001). Competitive advantages of rural america in the next century. International Regional Science Review, 24(1), 38-58. doi: 10.1177/016001701761013006.
16. Johnson, K. M., Nucci, A., & Long, L. (2005). Population trends in metropolitan America: Selective deconcentration and the rural rebound. Population Research and Policy Review, 24, 527-542. doi: 10.1007/ s11113-005-4479-1.
17. Luloff, A. E., & Befort, W. A. (1989). Land use change and aerial photography: Lessons for applied sociology. Rural Sociology, 54(1), 92-105.
18. Lichter, D. T., & Fuguitt, G. V. (1982). The transition of nonmetropolitan population deconcentration. Demography, 19(2), 211-221. doi: 10.2307/2061191.
19. Lichter, D. T., Fuguitt, G. V., & Heaton, T. B. (1985). Components of nonmetropolitan population change: The contribution of rural areas. Rural Sociology, 50 (1), 88-98.
20. Massey, D. S., & Denton, N. A. (1993). Segregation and the making of the underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
21. McCarthy, K. F., & Morrison, P. A. (1977). The changing demographic and economic structure of nonmetropolitan areas in the United States. Interregional Science Review, 2, 123-142. doi: 10.1177/ 016001767700200202.
22. Menard, S. (2001). Applied logistic regression analysis, Sage University paper series on quantitative applications in the social sciences, 07-106. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
23. Nelson, A. C., & Sanchez, T. W. (1999). Debunking the exurban myth: A comparison of suburban households. Housing Policy Debate, 10(3), 689-709.
24. Ormsby, T., Napoleon, E., Burke, R., Groessl, C., & Feaster, L. (2001). Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
25. Schnore, L. F. (1957). The growth of metropolitan suburbs. American Sociological Review, 22(2), 165-173. doi: 10.2307/2088853.
26. Schnore, L. F. (1961). Geography and human ecology. Economic Geography, 37(3), 207-217. doi: 10.2307/142087.
27. Theobald, D. M. (2001). Quantifying urban and rural sprawl using the sprawl index. Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, New York, NY.
28. Thomas, J. K., & Howell, F. M. (2003). Metropolitan proximity and U.S. Agricultural Productivity, 1978-1997. Rural Sociology, 68(3), 366-386.
29. Waldinger, R. (1996). Still the promised city? African Americans and new immigrants in postindustrial New York. London: Harvard University Press.
30. Waldinger, R., & Bozorgmehr, M. (Eds.). (1996). Ethnic Los Angeles New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
31. Whatmore, S. (1993). On doing rural research (or breaking the boundaries). Environment & Planning A, 32, 695-714.
32. Wilkinson, K. P. (1991). The rural-urban variable in community research. In The community in rural America (pp. 37-59). Middleton, WS: Social Ecology Press.