How Suburban Are Big American Cities?

Re:How Suburban Are Big American Cities? by mbollier on Thursday May 21, 2015 @09:24PM (#9586232)

Seemed cool until you look into the details - they gathered the data by asking residents if they lived in a "urban, suburban or rural" area.

How many people who live within a city's limits are really going to say they live in the suburbs?

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Re:How Suburban Are Big American Cities? by wtallis on Thursday May 21, 2015 @09:35PM (#9586264)

> "How many people who live within a city's limits are really going to say they live in the suburbs?"

Tons:

> "Looking only at respondents in the larger principal cities (those with a population greater than 100,000) of larger metropolitan areas (those with a population greater than 500,000), the breakdown was 56 percent urban, 42 percent suburban and 2 percent rural. That means close to half of people who live within city limits describe where they live as suburban."

"City limits" is a really poor indicator of "urban".

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Re:How Suburban Are Big American Cities? by nattaggart on Friday May 22, 2015 @11:23AM (#9588847)

Good point. This study seems like it would be biased by a region's perspective on city living. My guess is that people who want to live in the city will self-identify as urban much more often than those who want to live in suburbs.

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