Teenagers that are unable to be independent experience a lot of boredom, isolation, and frustration. When addressing public health concerns of drug abuse with patients directly, suburban health care providers and medical practitioners have the advantage of treating a demographic of drug abuse patients that are better educated and equipped with resources to recover from addiction and overdose. ), Employment Deconcentration in European Metropolitan Areas. Hoover, Edgar, and Raymond Vernon 1962 Anatomy of a Metropolis. Also, because of the typical spread pattern of suburban housing, the lack of variety of housing types, and the greater distance between homes, real estate development and public service costs increase, which in turn increase the deficit of upper levels of government. Once shunned by the higher-status suburbs, they now contribute to property values and the local tax base. As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses out of the city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas grow. [1] (Sub-urbanization is inversely related to urbanization, which denotes a population shift from rural areas into urban centres.). Settled areas that are beyond the historical boundaries of what have been considered cities but still are clearly functionally linked to the cities or may not be considered suburban. In 1950, approximately 70 percent of people in the Twin Cities metro lived in Minneapolis and St. Suburbanization picks up The new numbers leave little doubt that suburbanization is on the rise, after a decided lull in the first part of the decade. Such changes are not simply technical adjustments; they respond (among other criteria) to assumptions about what cities and suburbs are. During the 1970s, for example, the number of blacks in the non-central-city parts of metropolitan areas increased 70 percent compared with just 16 percent in central cities, and the number of other nonwhites in those locations shot up 150 percent compared with approximately 70 percent in central cities. Downtown businesses started to shift towards the suburbs where the customers were. "WHITE SUBURBANIZATION AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOME OWNERSHIP,1940-1980". The findings on city-suburb disparities, of course, indicate that exclusion has selective effects. In addition, the location and design of suburbs throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were influenced by such factors as the ethnic heritage and the income of the prospective residents. This phenomenon has encouraged researchers to study suburbanization as a mirror on the social mobility of minorities. As newer housing and commercial developments were built the older suburban areas began to decline just as cities did earlier.

Farley, Reynolds 1970 ‘‘The Changing Distribution of Negroes within Metropolitan Areas: The Emergence of Black Suburbs.’’ American Journal of Sociology 75:512–529. Because of this residents came to vehemently defend their homes against outside threats, particularly the Civil Rights Movement and African American encroachments into their neighborhood. America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. In E. Razin, M. Dijst & C. Vazquez (Eds.
William Julius Wilson. They also found a significant racial dimension: Greater disparities were evident in both 1960 and 1970 in metropolitan areas in the North with a larger proportion of black residents. Conversely, Slovenian and Romanian suburban developments visibly surrounded cities/towns during the 1990s. [25] This is to mean that as city growth patterns increase the population increases leading to suburbanisation which hence leads to the under development of real estate since it is a business. In addition, … : Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 551:44–58. Cities came to be viewed as dangerous and crime ridden. The political boundaries between cities and suburbs accentuate interest in substantive issues of metropolitan inequality. At the same time, total central-city retail and wholesale employment was stagnant (dropping by 100,000). As numerous authors have revealed, suburbanization is itself a contested term, having geographic, social, political, racial and economic components.

David Halberstam. Initially they had imagined suburbia "as an anaesthetized state of mind, a no place dominated by a culture of conformity and consumption." Sociologists on the whole have been less willing to be proponents of metropolitan solutions and have shown more interest in the causes than in the consequences of suburbanization.