Redefining urban and suburban America
Subtitle: evidence from Census 2000, volume two
By: Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert E. Lang, editors.
Contributors: Berube, Alan.; Katz, Bruce.; Lang, Robert, 1959-
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815748960; 9780815748977
Subjects: Metropolitan areas -- United States.; Suburbs -- United States.; City and town life -- United States.; Sociology, Urban -- United States.; United States -- Population.
Description: "Probes trends in migration, income and poverty, and housing in the nation's largest cities and metropolitan areas, using data from the long form of the 2000 census"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert Lang; title: Metropolitan magnets for international and domestic migrants / William H. Frey; title: The rise of new immigrant gateways : historical flows, recent settlement trends / Audrey Singer; title: The new great migration : Black Americans return to the South, 1965-2000 / William H. Frey; title: A decade of mixed blessings : urban and suburban poverty in Census 2000 / Alan Berube and William H. Frey; title: Stunning progress, hidden problems : the dramatic decline of concentrated poverty in the 1990s / Paul A. Jargowsky; title: The trajectory of poor neighborhoods in Southern California, 1970-2000 / Shannon McConville and Paul Ong; title: The shape of the curve : household income distributions in U.S. cities, 1979-1999 / Alan Berube and Thacher Tiffany; title: Homeownership and younger households : progress among African Americans and Latinos / Dowell Myers and Gary Painter; title: Rising affordability problems among homeowners / Patrick A. Simmons; title: The sheltered homeless in metropolitan neighborhoods : evidence from the 1990 and 2000 censuses / Barrett A. Lee and Chad R. Farrell; title: Patterns and trends in overcrowded housing / Patrick A. Simmons.