{"title":"Convergence in world urbanization? A quantitative assessment.","authors":"D A Smith, B London","doi":"10.1177/004208169002500404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208169002500404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Cross-national data are used to explore the question of whether world urban patterns and processes are converging or diverging. We compare tabular data on overall percent urban, urban primacy, overurbanization, and urban bias across world-system strata and global regions. The evidence suggests continuing differences and little evidence for convergence. To determine whether world-system effects have causal efficacy, we conclude with a regression analysis. These results provide strong evidence for a world-system explanation of continuing differences in overall level of urbanization and urban primacy, and a developmentalist approach seems to explain persisting divergence in levels of urban bias.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"25 4","pages":"574-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208169002500404","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22037478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metropolitan population size and economic well-being.","authors":"G C Galster","doi":"10.1177/004208168902400407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168902400407","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A multi-equation recursive model is specified wherein the level and inequality of income in US metropolitan areas are functions of population, labor force characteristics, industrial structure, and occupational structure. Parameters are estimated for a 1980 sample of 120 standard metropolitan statistical areas representative of all population sizes. These parameters suggest that metropolitan areas of 1.9 million population demonstrate on average the greatest inequality, ceteris paribus. Population proved not to be strongly correlated with per capita income, either directly or indirectly.</p>","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"24 4","pages":"597-614"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168902400407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South Africa's urban policy: a new form of influx control.","authors":"R Tomlinson","doi":"10.1177/004208168802300402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168802300402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The South African government has repealed influx control for blacks living in the 'non-independent homelands.' Although the urban shift of the black population is increasingly accepted, controls on the supply of housing and land for housing blacks have been retained. The emphasis is now on alternative restrictions on black urbanization. The restrictions, however, contrast with the wishes of South Africa's business leadership. The 1986 'reforms' are explained by exploring the relationship between government policy and business interests. Finally, the urban policies are contrasted with the new metropolitan government, the Regional Services Councils, through which blacks are being brought into multiracial governmental structures but on unequal terms.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"23 4","pages":"487-510"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168802300402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22013032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overurbanization reconceptualized: a political economy of the world-system approach.","authors":"D A Smith","doi":"10.1177/004208168702300206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168702300206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"After many years of relative neglect, the issue of 'overurbanization' in Third World countries has recently received renewed attention in the social science literature. Adopting a political economy of the world-system perspective on urbanization and development, this article critiques the theoretical adequacy of the overurbanization thesis. Conceptualizing a causal relationship between spatio-demographic imbalances (labelled 'over-urbanization') and relatively skewed and stagnant economic development is midleading. Both urban patterns and development trajectories are distorted by the international dependency of Third World nations in the world economy. The general argument is illustrated by discussing the role that the so-called 'urban surplus labor' of the 'informal sector' plays in surplus extraction under peripheral capitalism.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"23 2","pages":"270-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168702300206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City employment change in the Republic of Korea, 1960-1970.","authors":"D R Meyer, K Min","doi":"10.1177/004208168702200408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168702200408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Changes in the employment characteristics of Korean cities during the 1960s, a period of polarized development and rapid industrialization, are examined. The expectation of modernization and world-system/dependency theorists that the national metropolis, Seoul, increased its dominance in many key sectors is supported. Other cities, however, also grew rapidly, specialized in different economic sectors, and changed their economic structures. Polarized development, therefore, need not imply atrophy of noncore cities. Both modernization and world-system/dependency theorists need to apply more complex conceptualizations of systems of cities in developing nations.</p>","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"22 4","pages":"598-616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168702200408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22026050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Where have all the people gone?\" Recent inconsistencies between population growth and housing development in suburban Chicago.","authors":"R M Denowitz","doi":"10.1177/004208168402000208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168402000208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"An examination of recent growth in suburban Chicago suggests that rates of population and housing increase tend to vary principally by age of housing, and secondarily by distance from the central city's business district. Population loss or small increases relative to housing gains typified the most centrally located older suburbs. Although much higher rates of population and housing increase characterized newer places, especially those between 21 and 30 miles from the CBD, their population gain was smaller than that accompanying comparably high levels of residential development in earlier periods.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"20 2","pages":"255-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168402000208","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22035009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial and ethnic succession in four cities.","authors":"M J White","doi":"10.1177/004208168402000203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168402000203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The concept of succession is well established in both ecological and economic models of urban residential change, yet much remains unknown about the determinants of succession in urban neighborhoods. Employing longitudinal census tract data for four [U.S.] cities, this article predicts racial composition of neighborhoods as a function of earlier-period racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and physical characteristics. There is support for aspects of the ecological and filtering models of succession, although many elements of the process are not generally applicable across time and place.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"20 2","pages":"165-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168402000203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22035008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City-suburban population redistribution: what data from the 1970s reveal.","authors":"C J Tucker","doi":"10.1177/004208168401900408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168401900408","url":null,"abstract":"Data from the Current Population Survey are used to analyze trends in the spatial distribution of the U.S. population in the 1970s. The data indicate that central cities continue to lose and suburban rings to gain population and there is no evidence of a trend involving the return of population to central city areas. The author suggests that observed declines in suburban population growth rates are associated with lower rates of natural increase not a decline in in-migration. (ANNOTATION)","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"19 4","pages":"539-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168401900408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing distribution of the black population: Florida cities, 1970-1980.","authors":"M D Winsberg","doi":"10.1177/004208168301800305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168301800305","url":null,"abstract":"Ten Florida Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas were chosen to ascertain the degree blacks were able, during the 1970s, to change their geographical distribution with regard to whites. It was found that most black population growth during the decade took place within white census tracts contiguous to tracts that were at least half black in 1970. By 1980, many of these tracts had acquired a black majority. Very little black population growth took place in white tracts distant from established black neighborhoods.","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"18 3","pages":"361-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/004208168301800305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22010188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neighborhood Response to Gentrification: Conditions of Mobilization","authors":"J. Henig","doi":"10.1177/004208168201700305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168201700305","url":null,"abstract":"Residents of redeveloping urban neighborhoods have a stake in collectively mobilizing to insure that they are not forced to suffer undue and uncompensated costs. But neighborhood mobilization is problematic-the existence of a shared interest is not sufficient to insure that mobilization will occur. This is a point that pluralist approaches to interest group politics have tended to obscure. This article sketches an analytic framework for analyzing the conditions of neighborhood mobilization, and applies that framework to recent changes in the form that innercity redevelopment takes. The decreased reliance on direct public sector intervention that characterizes the transition from urban renewal to the contemporary gentrification process generates politically significant obstacles to the likelihood of timely and effective neighborhood response.","PeriodicalId":85823,"journal":{"name":"Urban affairs quarterly","volume":"17 1","pages":"343 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65101615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}