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Measuring Urban Decentralization through the Great Recession\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d Laura Schultz (MCRP \u201912) challenges the popular belief that cities reversed the trend of decentralization in the wake of the housing bubble burst.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile the growth of urban centers has been studied from many angles, no one had looked specifically at the recession, a unique period of time in the U.S. housing market which made this project very appealing to me,\u201d says Schultz about her multi-city study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchultz assessed residential development trends during the past decade by measuring how population, housing, vacancy, and occupancy rates fared in 12 major US cities. Dan Immergluck, a professor of housing and real estate markets at Georgia Tech, states that Schultz\u2019 findings are highly significant because \u201c[T]hey call into question the assertions made by some popular urban observers that the housing crisis has put an end to sprawl and a \u2018rationalization\u2019 of metropolitan investment patterns.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchultz found that decentralization continued in all 12 cities studied, in some cases demonstrating an overall trend reversal from centralization to decentralization or even accelerated decentralization rates. According to Immergluck, these patterns of sprawl continued after the onset of the economic crisis even in \u201ccities that had shown some signs of more compact development trends before the crisis hit.\u201d Schultz\u2019s research sheds new light on current housing trends and offers significant evidence that cities are continuing to expand outward, even in the midst of a great financial crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELaura Schultz is a 2012 graduate of the Georgia Tech\u2019s School of City and Regional Planning and currently works as an \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEconomic Development Associate at Hudson Square Connection in New York, NY\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"A Changing Paradigm? Measuring Urban Decentralization through the Great Recession"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven during the greatest economic downturn in the U.S. since the Great Depression, development still trended toward urban sprawl according to recent findings from a 2012 Georgia Tech applied research paper.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2012-10-03 23:41:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:54","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"161261":{"id":"161261","type":"image","title":"Monopoly houses","body":null,"created":"1449178896","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:36","changed":"1475894796","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:36","alt":"Monopoly houses","file":{"fid":"195418","name":"monopoly_houses.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/monopoly_houses_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/monopoly_houses_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":25576,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/monopoly_houses_0.jpg?itok=5BxVl9B8"}},"159121":{"id":"159121","type":"image","title":"Housing Market Map","body":null,"created":"1449178896","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:36","changed":"1475894794","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:34","alt":"Housing Market Map","file":{"fid":"195380","name":"laura_schultz_map_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/laura_schultz_map_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/laura_schultz_map_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":64470,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/laura_schultz_map_2_0.jpg?itok=NCiDhToK"}}},"media_ids":["161261","159121"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5291","name":"Applied Research"},{"id":"45481","name":"applied research paper"},{"id":"790","name":"Housing"},{"id":"12994","name":"housing market"},{"id":"4097","name":"real estate"},{"id":"167110","name":"SCaRP"},{"id":"167159","name":"school of city and regional planning"},{"id":"167441","name":"student research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}