Do Cities and Suburbs Cluster?

Persistent Discrimination in Residential Mobility between Cities and Suburbs : Flight from Minority Suburbs Succeeds Flight from Minority Cities ]

I dedicate this paper to my thesis adviser Professor Olney. I am infinitely grateful for your guidance. Thank you for all the support you gave me this past year, your encouraging words and patience. It was an honor and privilege to work with such a great mentor. Thanks again. Introduction. Suburbanization has long been associated with upward social mobility. Suburbs generally have lower crime r...

LOOKING OUTWARD OR TURNING INWARD? Motivations for Development Decisions in California Central Cities and Suburbs

The author probes for differences among central cities, suburbs, and rural communities in the perceived importance of various motivations for development decisions, drawing on a mail survey of city managers/administrators in California. Central-city respondents are more inclined to “look outward” in making land-use decisions, attributing greater importance to certain regional economic and devel...

Functional Evaluation of Mazandaran Province Cities Using Factor Analysis, Numerical Taxonomy and Cluster Analysis

Inequity in Timeliness of MMR Vaccination in Children Living in the Suburbs of Iranian Cities

INTRODUCTION High coverage of immunization is one of the indicators of good performance of health system but timely vaccination is another indicator which is associated with protective effect of vaccines. The present study aimed at evaluating the inequity in timely vaccination with a focus on inequities in timeliness by gender, birth order, parents' education and place of residence (rural or ur...

FROM SEWERS TO SUBURBS Transforming the Policy-Making Context of American Cities

Central city infrastructure development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in areas such as sewerage, water works, street lighting, and street pavement, was an important cause of suburban municipal autonomy by the time of the Great Depression. Suburban autonomy was in turn an important factor in the racial and economic transformations that were visible in central cities by the 1950s. Th...