Urbanization today, now that it has become generalized, is mainly suburbanization in its
manifold differentiation. As suburbanization becomes the form and suburbanism becomes …

Despite a proliferation of research on neighborhood effects on health, how neighborhood
economic development, in the form of gentrification, affects health and well-being in the USA …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present
urbanization is often referred to as an'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth …

Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities
of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region's booming tech economy …

Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation
Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship …

The 21st century has been declared the 'urban century'now that a majority of the world's
population live in cities. A number of nations have been highly urbanised since at least the …

Scholars conducting empirical research on US suburbs must develop their own definition of
suburbia. In this paper, we operationalize three suburban definitions commonly used in the …

Over the last two decades, suburban studies have emerged from a call for a new conceptual
order to go beyond the traditional dichotomies of the urban realm, namely, the centre …

Over the past several decades, researchers have investigated segregation, differentiating
between central cities and suburbs. However, suburbs have become more differentiated …

This paper explores the outlooks of black parents raising sons in a suburban school setting
in a town that I call Rolling Acres. Dominant narratives about black males center on urban …