Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs. As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses out of the city centers, low-density peripheral areas grow.

The extraordinary increases in Black, Hispanic and Asian suburbanization since 1990 have changed the racial makeup of suburbia overall. Multiracial diversity is suffusing America’s suburbs as ...

The Suburbanization trend we identified a year ago has continued. The scale is larger than expected. The impact on oil demand and other knock-on effects are greater. Photo by jhorrocks/iStock via ...

The American safety net has many imperfections. You can find instances where poverty traps have been created. But to say the problem with poverty is that the government is making matters worse, is ...

As poverty has increased in the suburbs of U.S. metropolitan areas, so has the amount of households in the suburbs that rely on federal housing assistance. Housing choice vouchers, formerly known ...

"We think about suburbs in one way," says Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. "We have a very stereotypical view of suburbs as middle-class ...

It concerns the changing relationships between place and poverty, and the increasing suburbanization of poverty. He gave a nice interview on CSPAN Book TV. More here.

Privatization of urban fringes and ' post-suburbanization' - National - The Jakarta PostLikewise, recent Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) development shows some similar trends, although it might be ...

The suburbanization of America is not new, but a new report suggests that dramatic drops in home prices could be opening the way for buyers to find homes on their favorite cul-de-sac.

For one thing, suburbanization has come gradually. Old-timers talk about the construction of the Ten Oaks Plaza — a strip center built 10 years ago — as if it had been put up yesterday.