Abstract
In this study, suburbs are represented by metropolitan rings-those parts of the 212 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas that lie outside the central cities. Population changes in centers and suburban rings between 1950 and 1960 are examined by means of three different measures. For the first time, we are able to take account of the effect of annexation and can see the actual extent to which the expansion of city boundaries tends to mask the ammount of decetralization or suburbanization that has been taking place. Considering the nation as a whole, the unajusted data show that rings grew about four and a half times as fast as the cities they surround, and the that these outlying parts of SMSA's captured just over three-fourths of the total increase going to metropolitan areas. When adjusted for annexations by central cities, however, the data reveal that the rings grew over forty times as fast as the cities as bounded in 1950, and that the suburban rings captured almost 97 per cent of the total...
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