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(�um�xchcn.l�c V��iehb�nirhoo� Smdic<: ('h:uurlcritin�� IJcclinc • Bedroom Suburbs have rapid rates of population growth but less white- collarjob growth. Bedroom suburbs have moderate to high household incomes and are majority white. • Urbanised Affluent areas have rapid white-collarjob growth, moderate population growth, high household incomes, and are majority white. • Static areas have little job or population growth, moderate to high household incomes, and may have large minority populations. • Declining areas are experiencing job dec►ine, static population growth, and low to moderate household incomes. They are majority non-white. The majority of new residents, new jobs, and new wealth can be found on the north side of the Adanta region - both within the City of Atlanta and its suburbs. The most rapidly growing population centres are outer suburban areas up to thirty miles from Atianta's central business district. At the same time, a large area of litde or no population growth, economic decline, and high poverty is on the south side of tbe city and its suburbs. This north-south divide is apparent also in the kind ofjobs. In the Atlanta region, the northside is the home of flourishing indusMes like high technology, while most of the job increases in the southside are in the service sector (ibid.). Despite the presence of a large middle-class black population in the region, the noRh-south divide between prosperity and poverty strongly corcesponds with established residential racial segregation patterns. The booming neighbourhoods in the northern sectors of the city are predominantly white (up to 90 per cent), very affluent, and less dependent on city services. Southern suburban areas are struggling with intense social needs and insufficient resources. The region's low-income and minority workers become more and more spatially isolated from economic opportunities due to the direction of job growth that move [hem farther away from the inner neighbourhoods of south Atlanta (ibid.). 2.2.9. Inner City Focus on Decline is Too Geographically Confined Lucy and Phillips (2000, 2001) argue that the typical image of inetropolitan growth and decline where central cities lose population and suburbs continually gain is too basic. Contemporary suburbs are highly diverse: many newly developing suburbs experience rapid growth in people and jobs, while many older, frequently inner-ring suburbs face challenges similaz to those of inner cities: population decline, an ageing infrastructure, deteriorating schools and commercial comdors, and inadequate housing (Lucy and Phillips 2001). The study of population growth in nearly 2,600 suburbs in the 351argest metropolitan areas between 1990 and 2000 reveals (Lucy and Phillips 2000, 2001): More than one-third of the suburbs are either stagnant in terms of population growth or are losing residents. Population growth between 1990 and 2000 across individual suburbs was highly uneven: 63 per cent of all the suburbs grew, while 37 per cent lost population or stayed the same. Population growth was faster in unincorporated areas and in new suburbs than in existing suburbs. � �