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| Boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Framing the Issue | |
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| Lessons from Urban America | |
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| The real city is the total metropolitan area - city and suburb | |
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| Most of America's blacks, Hispanics, and Asians live in urban areas | |
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| Since World War II, urban growth has been low-density, suburban style | |
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| For a city's population to grow, the city must be elastic | |
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| Almost all metro areas have grown | |
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| Low-density cities can grow through in-fill; high-density cities cannot | |
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| Elastic cities expand their city limits; inelastic cities do not | |
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| Bad state laws can hobble cities | |
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| Neighbors can trap cities | |
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| Old cities are complacent; young cities are ambitious | |
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| Racial prejudice has shaped growth patterns | |
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| Elastic cities capture suburban growth; inelastic cities contribute to suburban growth | |
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| Elastic cities gain population; inelastic cities lose population | |
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| When a city stops growing, it starts shrinking | |
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| Inelastic areas are more segregated than elastic areas | |
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| Major immigration increases Hispanic segregation | |
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| Highly racially segregated regions are also highly economically segregated regions | |
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| Inelastic cities have wide income gaps with their suburbs; elastic cities maintain greater city-suburb balance | |
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| Poverty is more disproportionately concentrated in inelastic cities than in elastic cities | |
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| Little boxes regions foster segregation; Big Box regions facilitate integration | |
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| Little boxes school districts foster segregation; Big Box school districts facilitate integration | |
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| Inelastic areas were harder hit by deindustrialization of the American labor market | |
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| Elastic areas had faster rates of nonfactory job creation than inelastic areas | |
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| Elastic areas showed greater real income gains than inelastic areas | |
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| Elastic cities have better bond ratings than inelastic cities | |
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| Elastic areas have a higher educated workforce than inelastic areas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Characteristics of Metropolitan Areas | |
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| The Point of (Almost) No Return | |
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| Cities without Suburbs | |
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| Strategies for Stretching Cities | |
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| Three Essential Regional Policies | |
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| Metro Government: A Definition | |
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| State Government's Crucial Role | |
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| Federal Government: Leveling the Playing Field | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Central Cities and Metro Areas by Elasticity Category | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |
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| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | |