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A Quantitative Analysis of Suburbanization and the Diffusion of the Automobile

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Karen A. Kopecky (Department of Economics, The University of Western Ontario)
Richard M. H. Suen () (Department of Economics, University of California Riverside)

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Suburbanization in the U.S. between 1910 and 1970 was concurrent with the rapid diffusion of the automobile. A circular city model is developed in order to access quantitatively the contribution of automobiles and rising incomes to suburbanization. The model incorporates a number of driving forces of suburbanization and car adoption, including falling automobile prices, rising real incomes, changing costs of traveling by car and with public transportation, and urban population growth. According to the model, 60 percent of postwar (1940-1970) suburbanization can be explained by these factors. Rising real incomes and falling automobile prices are shown to be the key drivers of suburbanization.

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Paper provided by University of California at Riverside, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 200901.

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Date of creation: Jan 2009
Date of revision: Jan 2009
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Keywords: automobile; suburbanization; population density gradients; technological progress;

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R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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