Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

Files

File List


HollidayAmyLynn2006 kbc.pdf (28.72 MB)

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

Understanding a Distinct Form of Urban Inequality: Suburban Neighborhood Poverty

Holliday, Amy Lynn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396281518

Abstract Details

2006, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
Poverty in suburban places has largely been either ignored or treated as synonymous with central city poverty. Yet, recent research, at a suburban place level, has indicated that suburban poverty is growing and likely differs from central city poverty (Jargowsky 2003; Lucy and Phillips 2000; Mickelbank 2004; Orfield 2002; Puentes and Warren 2006). However, little scholarly research has been dedicated to broadening our knowledge of suburban poverty, particularly at a neighborhood level. Therefore, I use Census 2000 neighborhood level data to add to our knowledge of suburban poverty. First, I describe the prevalence and form of suburban neighborhood poverty. Second, in order to identify the distinguishing attributes of suburban neighborhood poverty, I compare the characteristics of suburban and central city high-poverty neighborhoods and assess the influence of metropolitan structures on suburban concentrated poverty. While suburban neighborhood poverty, as expected, remains less prevalent than central city neighborhood poverty, for some metropolitan areas suburban neighborhood poverty is extensive. I find that there are at least three forms of suburban poverty: “Latin- American Style,” “Classic Inner-Ring,” and “Exurban Mixed.” Additionally, I find that suburban neighborhood poverty is distinct, largely, because it not associated with within metropolitan area minority segregation, but, instead, is associated with across metropolitan Hispanic segregation. Most importantly, this research indicates that broad constructs of neighborhood poverty, which assume that central city high-poverty neighborhoods and suburban high-poverty neighborhoods are one and the same, are deficient because they fail to capture both the distinguishing characteristics of high-poverty neighborhoods and the specific metropolitan structures associated with concentrated neighborhood poverty across varying locations in metropolitan areas.
Rachel Dwyer (Advisor)
Lauren Krivo (Committee Member)
Kent Schwirian (Committee Member)
45 p.
Sociology

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • Holliday, A. L. (2006). Understanding a Distinct Form of Urban Inequality: Suburban Neighborhood Poverty [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396281518

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Holliday, Amy. Understanding a Distinct Form of Urban Inequality: Suburban Neighborhood Poverty. 2006. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396281518.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Holliday, Amy. "Understanding a Distinct Form of Urban Inequality: Suburban Neighborhood Poverty." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396281518

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

osu1396281518
185
© 2006, all rights reserved.
This open access ETD is published by The Ohio State University and OhioLINK.