Local Growth Suburbs: Investigating Change within the Metropolitan Context

Abstract

Recent growth in U.S. suburbs has generated much academic research and discussion.While some research has taken the direction of investigating the topics of sprawl, spatial mismatch, and smart growth, other research has focused on the nature of the suburban places themselves.Why do some places grow, while others do not?What is the nature of the complex relationships between a suburb's characteristics and its growth performance?That growth performance often is measured as a simple growth rate, and although such efforts have led to a better understanding of suburban dynamics, it has left spatial and conceptual gaps in our understanding of suburbs.The research presented here considers a suburb's growth relative to that of its metropolitan area.This approach allows for the identification, for example, of places that are outperforming their home region but have a moderate or even negative growth rate.Analyses based on this local growth perspective shed additional light on, and raise additional questions about, what one might traditionally consider a successful suburb.

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