Municipal Annexations and the Growth of Metropolitan Suburbs, 1950-60

Bibliographic Data

ID7617536
AuthorsLeo F Schnore (corresponding author)
Year1962
Volume67
Issue4
Pages406-417
Publication date1962-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/223164
OpenAlexW2087473332
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In this study, "suburbs" are represented by metropolitan "rings"-those parts of the 212 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas that lie outside the central cities. Population changes in centers and suburban rings between 1950 and 1960 are examined by means of three different measures. For the first time, we are able to take account of the effect of annexation and can see the actual extent to which the expansion of city boundaries tends to mask the ammount of "decetralization" or "suburbanization" that has been taking place. Considering the nation as a whole, the unajusted data show that rings grew about four and a half times as fast as the cities they surround, and the that these outlying parts of SMSA's captured just over three-fourths of the total increase going to metropolitan areas. When adjusted for annexations by central cities, however, the data reveal that the rings grew over forty times as fast as the cities as bounded in 1950, and that the suburban rings captured almost 97 per cent of the total metropolitan increase. Before annexation was taken into account, 64 SMSA's appeared to have been "centralizing," but this number was reduced to eight when city boundaries were held constant

Annexation · Archaeology · Central city · Economic geography · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Suburbanization · Demography · Law · Urbanization and City Planning

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