The changing relationship between metropolitan area population growth and central city decline in the US manufacturing belt

John McDonald

The Annals of Regional Science, 2023, vol. 71, issue 2, No 1, 299-316

Abstract: Abstract This study examines population losses for 13 major central cities in the manufacturing belt of the USA over the period 1950 to 2020. The percentage change in the population of in a central city is related to population change at the metropolitan level. The main finding is that the propensity of the central cities to lose population declined after the disastrous 1970s. Data for the most recent decade (2010–2020) suggest that some of these central cities may not lose population at all, even if the population growth of the metropolitan area is small. Understanding this apparent change in the pattern of population change in urban areas is a major challenge for researchers.

Date: 2023
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