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ideline for evaluating and selecting suburban classifications. We compare the geographic reach, descriptive characteristics, and benefits for research of three common types of suburban definitions, discussed in detail below, to provide a picture of suburban neighborhood.
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Jun 12, 2020 · This article presents a side-by-side comparison of four methods of defining suburbs for quantitative research (Cooke and Marchant 2006; Hanlon and Vicino 2007; Kneebone and Berube 2013; Anacker, Niedt, and Kwon 2017).
- Fabian J. Terbeck
- 2020
- Pattern Metrics and Urban-Rural Gradient Typologies
- Rural Towns, Agricultural Towns, and Land Use Intensity
- Challenges with Urban-Rural Gradient Classification Approaches
In general, all five urban-rural gradient typologies we examined illustrate an urban-rural gradient with urban towns surrounded by suburban towns, then exurban towns, and rural towns filling out the remainder of the region (Figs. 1 and 5). However, the typologies differ in two important ways. First, the broad measures used in the rule-based typolog...
While agricultural lands are used to qualitatively describe areas along urban-rural gradients (e.g., Saito and Koike 2013; Wadduwage et al. 2017), they are rarely explicitly incorporated into quantitative gradient definitions (although, see Nagy and Lockaby 2011, Lee and Carroll 2015, and Samuelson et al. 2018). In most classification systems, town...
Generating an urban-rural gradient typology with a cluster analysis approach, rather than simpler rule-based calculations, has advantages and disadvantages. Cluster-based typologies can easily be informed by several land cover and pattern metrics that capture greater complexity of the system and more readily address local resource management and wi...
- Abigail Kaminski, Dana Marie Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Cynthia S. Loftin, Erik J. Nelson
- 2021
Jun 12, 2020 · Abstract and Figures. Suburbs are currently the focus of much research because they are the arena for many contemporary social, economic, and political issues. Yet definitions of what constitutes...
Feb 16, 2016 · We present a novel method for linking perceptual definitions of urban, suburban, and rural to geospatial characteristics and demonstrate how the method can be used to map urban, suburban, and rural areas at multiple scales in central and eastern Massachusetts.
- Anne G. Short Gianotti, Jackie M. Getson, Lucy R. Hutyra, David B. Kittredge, David B. Kittredge
- 2016
Sep 25, 2019 · Finally, the authors describe a method based on development eras, which they call the “typology” definition. Areas built prior to 1950, whether inside or outside the principal city, are defined as “urban.” Places built roughly between 1950 through 1969 are defined as “inner ring” suburbs.
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A new report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University looks at how definitions shape how we study and think about the suburbs. "Recent calls for a deeper understanding of suburban space challenge existing definitions and, at a minimum, demand considering them more broadly.
