Eviction has been studied almost exclusively as an urban phenomenon. The growing suburbanization of poverty in the United States, however, provides new cause to analyze prevalence and correlates displacement beyond cities. This study analyzes urban-suburban disparities eviction rates across 71 large metropolitan areas. We show that is a common experience suburbs well Urban exceed suburban most ...

Culture, and the human geography it produces, persists over a long time period. However, culture changes slowly, as does the visible landscape it produces and the ethnic meanings imbued by the group that shapes it. That many examples of persistent and new cultural landscapes exist in the United States is not surprising given the major technological, demographic, and economic changes in American...

Using a unique dataset on the characteristics, origin, and destination of households who engaged in intrametropolitan moves in the Columbus, Ohio area, we estimate a hybrid conditional logit choice model of residential location that separately identifies the push/pull influence of local public goods, namely school quality and public safety, from household income and other lifecycle effects. Our...

Average population density has been a traditional urban sprawl indicator, but it is insufficient to encapsulate its detrimental impacts. We demonstrate that cities of identical average may be subject very different levels car dependency, CO2 emissions and public budget deficits. To capture this, we shed light into the properties two “density-allocation” indicators: percentage land in which fall...