Changing families and changing mobility

Their impact on the central city

Bibliographic Data

ID10969554
AuthorsWilliam H Frey (0000-0002-6373-0794, The Population Studies Center of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, corresponding author), Frances E Kobrin (Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912)
Year1982
Volume19
Issue3
Pages261-277
Publication date1982-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2060970
PMID7117626
OpenAlexW1993642116
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited17

Urban scholars and planners look to evidence of recent gains in the number of nontraditional households as a potential source of increase to the population sizes and tax bases of declining central cities. While it is now well established that substantial gains in the numbers of small, nontraditional households have occurred since the 1950s, it has not been demonstrated that: (a) these households are more likely to relocate in the city than traditional family households (husband-wife with children under 18); or (b) their cityward relocation patterns will significantly alter trends toward smaller city household populations. This paper addresses these questions by examining changes in city-suburb migration stream rates by household type over periods 1955–60, 1965–70 and 1970–75 for large metropolitan areas, and assesses their implications for potential changes in the aggregate sizes of city household populations

Central city · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Population · Relocation · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Wife · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Housing Market and Economics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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