Abstract The suburbanization of cities began in many countries after World War II and was caused, among other things, by the growing popularity motor car, development transport networks, growth human populations. In post-socialist countries, this process started later (mainly collapse socialism). Suburbanization often an uncontrolled phenomenon (due for instance to ineffective urban spatial pol...

Geographic studies of environmental racism have focused on the spatial relationships between environmental hazards and community demographics in order to determine if inequity exists. Conspicuously absent within this literature, however, is any substantive discussion of racism. This paper seeks to address this shortcoming in two ways. I first investigate how racism is understood and expressed i...

The residential patterns across the metropolitan areas have changed notably since 1950s; The population has suburbanized and the poor now live closer to the city center. The recent research by urban economists finds that the income elasticity of land demand is too low to explain the poor’s urbanization, which mainly comes from better access to public transportation in cities. We take the new fi...

This paper presents a version of the monocentric city model that incorporates heterogeneous commuting speeds by introducing radial commuting highways. This model implies that metropolitan area population spreads out along new highways, which are positively valued by residents. Simulations of conservative specifications of the model imply that each additional highway ray causes about a 10 percen...

The influence of suburbanization upon runoff response to snowmelt and rain-on-snow inputs was examined for a small drainage basin in south-central Ontario. Modification of more than 50% of the basin area over a 14 year period led to a six-fold increase in the spring quickflow response ratio and an increase in the number of snowmelt events that generate appreciable quickflow. Anticipated changes...