title: Population decentralization within metropolitan areas: 1970-1980.
abstract: Using a data set that maintains geographic and fiscal continuity over time and across a sample of major U.S. metropolitan areas, the authors identify factors of economic and population decentralization that affected central city areas between 1970 and 1980.  The problems of annexation are resolved by estimating population changes for central cities and suburban areas with constant 1980 boundaries, and by calculating fiscal variables from overlapping jurisdictions by city area as opposed to municipal city government only.  "The empirical investigation supports the view that demographic and housing stock variables seem to have had a greater impact on decentralization than central city-suburban fiscal differences."
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Palumbo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sacks
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wasylenko
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005376:Financial Management; D005843:Geography; D006798:Housing; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Administrative Districts; Americas; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Financial Activities; Geographic Factors; Housing; North America; Northern America; Population; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution; United States; Urban Spatial Distribution