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'Exurbs' offer glimpse at future growth trends |
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Exurbia -- that urban fringe beyond the suburbs -- grew 31 percent in the 1990s, which is more than twice as fast as the metro areas that exurban communities surround.
"Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe," a report by The Brookings Institution, uses a wealth of statistical information to define exurban communities and describe their growth trends.
The report's authors conclude that exurbs may represent a fairly small share of metro areas, but they are important to study in case this outward growth pattern continues. Exurbs, they say, may "signal the possible shape of things to come. Absent continued research and policy focus as to the causes and consequences of exurban growth, we might find ourselves wondering in 2050 how New York's exurbs arrived in Albany."
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