This powerpoint by Alan Berube, presented at the Knight Center’s “Cities, Suburbs, and Beyond” seminar, examines four major trends impacting U.S. cities in the 1990s, and offers a typology of city performance and attendant implications for policy. The presentation also discusses changes to urban and suburban America brought about by the federal government’s new metropolitan classification standards.
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Commentary
Census 2000: Key Trends and Implications for Cities
October 30, 2003