WHEN THE URBAN FRINGE IS NOT SUBURBAN* |
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| Authors: | JASON JINDRICH |
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| Institution: | Postdoctoral research associate at the Initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912. |
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| Abstract: | Research on the history of suburbs tends to either disregard the fringe of urban development or locate it beyond the city limits. In this article I argue that compounding fringe and suburban development misrepresents the real differences between the two. I then examine the metropolitan regions of three major U.S. cities‐Baltimore, Buffalo, and Saint Louis in 1880 for evidence of how they differed. A consistent difference emerged between the residents of the suburban districts of a city and those of the presumed location of the fringe. |
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| Keywords: | Baltimore Buffalo Saint Louis suburbs urban fringe |
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