tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498571578300107.post4038885482839465526..comments2024-01-03T04:02:30.439-05:00Comments on Hub and Spokes: Suburban Sprawl not Cities faultmides@hunter.cuny.eduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17692416995015371649noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498571578300107.post-64825822498690209652009-05-30T11:34:55.235-04:002009-05-30T11:34:55.235-04:00This is an easily-refuted argument. The assumptio...This is an easily-refuted argument. The assumption is that all in-migration is heading to the growing areas of the metropolitan area. In fact, the most typical migration pattern during the mid-20th century was from rural to city and simultaneously from city to suburb. <br /><br />I guess Cox has never heard of something called the Great Migration- 10 million African-Americans moving from the rural South to urban settings from 1915-1970. Or the 2 million mostly rural Puerto Ricans who moved to mainland cities after WWII? Or white flight, which a majority of white families in cities participated in in the 20th Century? <br /><br />Cox is making a mistake that my first year students make in interepreting demographics. He is certainly identifying a trend that may be driving the expansion of large third world cities, like Lagos, but does not explain mid-20th century suburbanization in America. The decline of rural population was more an early 20th century phenomenon than a late 20th century phenomenon.mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13529223551028644998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498571578300107.post-73315937500121685042009-05-26T15:59:32.692-04:002009-05-26T15:59:32.692-04:00Here in Germany, there is strong statistical evide...Here in Germany, there is strong statistical evidence that most suburbanisation stems from migration out of the city into the surrounding counties/suburbia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498571578300107.post-41715874826170732382009-05-23T01:58:23.154-04:002009-05-23T01:58:23.154-04:00This may perhaps only be a peripheral thought rath...This may perhaps only be a peripheral thought rather than a direct response, but I think some suburban residents don't understand the role of the city. They want the big yard, and they probably work in another suburb, so they don't understand why we should spend so much money on the core city, never realizing that their precious suburb wouldn't exist without the density and amenities of the cities (like an airport, for example), nor would it function without some of the lower income residents of the inner city working the menial jobs.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08348647188020827407noreply@blogger.com