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Review Essay: The New Metropolitan Reality

No one can dispute the remarkable changes that have taken place in metropolitan America since World War II. I live in Arlington, Texas, a community that as late as 1950 was a small town of less than 8,000 residents. Now it has grown to be a suburban city of 359,000 within the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, making it the fiftieth largest city in the United States. Located within the twelve-county Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of 5.6 million residents, it is not only the home of an American League baseball team, the Texas Rangers, but also the site of the new football stadium for the Dallas Cowboys. In addition, it contains a massive regional shopping mall, a huge amusement park, and a large state university. Parked midway between Dallas and Fort Worth and just south of the DFW International Airport, Arlington covers nearly 100 square miles and is accessed by two major interstate highways. Despite this, it has no real newspaper, no traditional downtown, no public transportation, and much less of a sense of itself than traditional cities. Arlington and the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex represent the incredible transformation that has taken place in metropolitan America during the past sixty years with the massive growth and development of suburbia and exurbia along with the disappearance of dominant central cities. Such development has gained increasing attention from scholars, and the three books under review here reflect the growing maturity of that literature. All the authors focus in some way on the causes and consequences of what Professor Jon Teaford characterizes as the metropolitan revolution, the massive movement of people, business, and industry to the