Introduction

Abstract

Intraurban residential relocation is the central dynamic process affecting the formation and change of urban residential structure. United States Bureau of the Census figures reveal that nearly 13% of the total population annually changes residence within county jurisdictions in the United States. Yet it is not the sheer magnitude of the process alone that suggests the importance of residential relocation in shaping urban residential structure. So many significant urban phenomena, such as social and racial segregation, neighborhood change and decline, and suburbanization, all operate largely through the intraurban residential relocation process. Knowledge of the underlying determinants generating intraurban residential relocation patterns is essential for understanding the dynamics of urban residential structure and the analysis of impending public policy issues surrounding these urban phenomena.