This web site presents supplemental material for the book and some subsequent research findings:

Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs
by William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips
Published by APA Planners Press, 2006

See APA Bookstore web site for details on purchasing.

The current supplemental materials are:
Overview Article
Maps of Income Changes in Suburbs
List of Suburbs with Income Changes
Dangers of Exurbia Detailed Tables
Suburbs with Low Per Capita Income
Income Performance Summary of "Older" and "Middle-Aged" Neighborhoods
Income Performance of 20 Cities 2000 to 2003
Errata

Additional Research on Cities and Suburbs Since 2000
City Performance Improves After 2000 Census
Whites Lead Cities' Income Revival 2000 to 2005 Release 11/13/06
Cities' Attractive Power: Recent Trends in Cities and Suburbs Since 2000--ACSP Paper 11/11/06

Overview Article:
Tomorrow's Cities,Tomorrows Suburbs:City and Suburban Decline and Revival

Maps:

Maps of Income and Changes for 35 Metropolitan Areas

Lists of Suburbs in Each Metropolitan Area:

Introduction, Items in each Table, Methods and Sources

These lists provide the basic income and population data for the 2586 suburbs featured in much of Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs.

Each List is a PDF document in about 1.2 megabytes in size and is book marked for each Metropolitan area. The Alphabetized table will provide easy reference to specific places. Finding places that were relatively better or worse off in 2000 would be easier in the Relative Income Ordered Lists. Places improving faster or falling behind their metropolitan areas between 1989 and 1999 would be easier to identify in the "Change" listings.

 

Suburbs Ordered within Metro Area By:	Per Capita Income	Median Family Income
Alphabetic	List A 1	List B 1
Relative Income in 1999	List A 2	List B 2
Change in Relative Income 1989-1999	List A 3	List B 3

Dangers in Exurbia

The following PDF document contains a portion of Chapter 11 "The Myth of Exurban Safety and Rational Location Decisions". Tables of combined Traffic and Homicide Rates for 10 Metropolitan Areas and the relevant descriptive text is provided. The metropolitan areas included are: Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Dangers in Exurbia PDF (90 k)

Suburbs with Low Per Capita Income

The following PDF documents contain the list of suburbs which had Per Capita Incomes 40% or More below the Metropolitan Income in 1999. Each PDF has greater detail as you progress down the list.

-------List of Suburbs
-------List of Suburbs and Income Data (Book Table Appendix 6.A)
-------List of Suburbs and more detailed data
------------Sorted by Name
------------Sorted by Income

Income Performance of Older and Middle-Aged Neighborhoods

This table and Chart for Cities and Chart for Suburbs shows the number and proportion of Neighborhoods (Census Tracts) that increasing by more than 2.5% in Average Family Income relative to the Metropolitan Average Family Income in the 1990s. Neighborhoods are classed as "older" if they had more than 1.5 times the metropolitan proportion of housing built before 1940 and "middle-aged" if they had more than 1.5 times the metropolitan proportion of housing built in the 1960s.

Income Performance of 20 Cities from 2000 to 2003

This Table ( 4.12) shows the relative median family and relative per capita income figures for 2003 as reported in the American Community Survey. These are compared with those of 1990 and 2000 censuses. (pdf)

Errata:

Re-label 1990 and 2000 column headings Table 5.3 and Table 5.5
Minor change made in Table 8.4 and Table 8.10