Central Cities in Urban Areas - Essay Example

 A central city is the largest or most important city of a metropolitan area, of which the other smaller cities and towns of the metropolitan area are suburbs.

Statistics of Los Angeles:

Los Angeles census held in the year 2000 shows dramatically unbalanced family incomes of all lower, middle, and rich in both central city and outside the central city due to number reasons. As per the census family income below $20,000 in the central city was 24.7% whereas 16.8% comprises families outside the central city. Similarly, middle families having income between $40,000 and $75,000 in the city was 25% and 29.9% outside the city. Furthermore, rich families with incomes above $200,000 in the city were 4.4% and 3.8% outside the city. (Frey 2009)

Reason for the attractiveness of Central Cities:

Central cities have always been an attraction for all due to the number of amenities available for each nature and sort of person. First is the presence of a rich variety of services and consumer goods like transport, internet, technology, restaurants, shopping malls, brands, theatres, physical settings like architectural beauty, etc. Good public services like good schools/education and less crime are also linked up with urban growth. Further cities have marked a trend of improving technology day by day for transporting goods, people, and ideas. Keeping in view the above attributes of cities it is clear that these all factors have become needs of rich people and with the passage of time, these have and will be increased with the change in technology and modern era.

Similarly on the other hand poor people outside the city are not blessed with the facilities available in cities. Being inspired by a good transportation system, multiple/excessive employment opportunities, and social services, the poor have always migrated to central cities however this is not a case of middle income. A major reason behind this is that there is not much difference in the income level for the middle family as they are enjoying the same income either they are in the city or outside the city which has already been reflected in the census conducted in 2000. (Logan 2010)