CAN SUBURBS SURVIVE WITHOUT THEIR CENTRAL CITIES - EXAMINING THE SUBURBAN DEPENDENCE HYPOTHESIS

Based on recent findings that changes in average suburban incomes are positively associated with changes in average central-city incomes, so me have concluded that disparities between central cities and their su burbs cause decline in metropolitan economic growth. The authors argue that causality runs in the other direction-metropolitan-wide growth n arrows disparities. The authors argue that cities and suburbs are inte rdependent, that there can be healthy individual suburbs and weak cent ral cities, and that there can be healthy suburbs in the aggregate and extremely poor central cities.