Boomburb

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Boomburb is a neologism for a large, rapidly growing city that remains essentially suburban in character even as it reaches populations more typical of urban core cities. Like edge city, an older and more widely accepted term, it describes a relatively recent phenomenon in North America.

Contents

1 Definition
2 Where they Are

2.1 In the
2.2 In

3 References
4 External links

Definition

Boomburbs are defined as places with more than 100,000 residents that are not the largest city in their metropolitan areas and have maintained double-digit rates of population growth in recent decades. The United States currently contains 53 boomburbs, which accounted for over half (51 percent) of 1990s’ growth in cities with between 100,000 and 400,000 residents. The boomburbs listed below are based on the populations of cities determined by and definitions of metropolitan areas used in the 2000 Census.

Boomburbs occur mostly in the Southwest, with almost half in California alone. Many boomburbs, especially in the West, are products of master-planned community development and the need to form large water districts. Las Vegas, with its expansive master-planned communities and desert surroundings, contains two boomburbs. By contrast, only two boomburbs are east of the Colorado Front Range and north of Texas and Florida: Naperville, Illinois in Chicagoland and Chesapeake, Virginia in the Hampton Roads region. Even large and rapidly growing Sunbelt metropolitan areas east of the Mississippi, such as Atlanta, lack boomburbs because suburban growth has occurred largely in unincorporated areas or in dozens of small municipalities.

Where they Are

In the

Arizona: Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Mesa, Peoria, Scottsdale, Tempe

California: Anaheim, Chula Vista, Corona, Costa Mesa, Daly City, Escondido, Fontana, Fremont, Fullerton, Irvine, Lancaster, Moreno Valley, Oceanside, Ontario, Orange, Oxnard, Palmdale, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Simi Valley, Sunnyvale, Thousand Oaks

Colorado: Aurora, Lakewood, Westminster

Florida: Clearwater, Coral Springs, Hialeah, Pembroke Pines

Illinois: Naperville

Nevada: Henderson, North Las Vegas

Oregon: Salem

Texas: Arlington, Carrollton, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Mesquite, Plano

Utah: West Valley City

Virginia: Chesapeake

Washington: Bellevue

In
British Columbia: Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond, Surrey
Ontario: Brampton, Burlington, Cambridge, Markham, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Vaughan

References

Lang, Robert and Patrick Simmons (2001). "Boomburbs: The Emergence of Large, Fast-Growing Suburban Cities in the United States." Fannie Mae Foundation Census Note 06.
Lang, Robert (2003). "Are the Boomburbs Still Booming?" Fannie Mae Foundation Census Note 15.
Knox, Paul and Linda McCarthy (2005). Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography. Pearson/Prentice Hall. Second Edition. pp. 163, 164, 560.
Hayden, Dolores (2004). A Field Guide to Sprawl. W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 26-27, 118.

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