What's with the asymmetrical development of DFW?
ProgressiveModerate:
Growth in the Dallas Fort-Worth metro area has strongly been in favor of the northern areas, with Collin and Denton counties specifically booming like crazy. Plano, Frisco, McKinney.
However, to the south, it seems like there's a pretty stark cutoff between urban and rural. In Southwest Dallas in particularly, you seem to have a lot of rather undeveloped areas only 30 minute to an hour car drive away from downtown.
Unlike a lot of cities, there isn't any sort of obvious geography constraint for DFW
Born to Slay. Forced to Work.:
If I’d have to wager itd have something to do with the southern part of the metro is where most minorities live. Historically that had been a “barrier” to development.
Arizona Iced Tea:
Aren't most affluent areas to the north of the core city across the country?
Sol:
Rich and upper middle class suburbs tend to get a lot of edge city type development that allows for more development on the fringes. So for example, Waxahachie might be as close to downtown Dallas as Frisco, but Frisco is closer to a ton of other huge employment centers in the northern suburbs while there are many fewer in Southern Dallas or Ellis county.
Of course, this is disparity in edge cities is in large part the result of racial segregation and favored quarter areas being attractive for development --and it reinforces these patterns too.
This asymmetry is pretty widespread actually, it's just especially obvious in DFW because there are very few natural barriers or other factors.
Tintrlvr:
Quote from: Arizona Iced Tea on December 06, 2022, 03:12:37 PM
Aren't most affluent areas to the north of the core city across the country?
Not everywhere. For example, the wealthiest part of the Denver metro (which has no geographic constraints whatsoever except at the very western fringe) is directly south of Denver, while the northern suburbs are more lower-middle income. It is an interesting pattern that the northern suburbs are often wealthier, though.
Separately, I will quote a post I made about Columbus, Ohio that should have some salience to DFW as well:
Quote from: Tintrlvr on April 08, 2022, 10:38:33 AM
One comment/observation is that Columbus's recent growth is almost exclusively high-education-type workers in line with growth in cities such as Austin, Seattle or Denver. The north side of Columbus was always the wealthier part of the city, and OSU is north of the center of the city. Since the growth has been wealthier/higher education, it's not surprising that it has concentrated on the side of the city that already had those attributes. Whereas the south of Columbus, which has always been more blue collar/industrial, hasn't been growing because its demographics aren't growing in the general Columbus metro, and the wealthier/higher education new arrivals don't move there because they'd rather be on the more desirable north side that is also more similar to their own tastes. Especially when costs are low and commutes are relatively easy, as in Columbus, there's not much reason to move to the less desirable part of town that also may not match demographically.
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