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Inner suburb is a term used for a variety of suburban communities that are generally located very close to the centre of a large city (the inner city and central business district). Their urban density is lower than the inner city or central business district but higher than that of the city's outer suburbs or exurbs.
In the United States and Canada, inner suburbs (sometimes known as "first-ring" suburbs) are the older, more populous communities of a metropolitan area that experienced urban sprawl before the post–World War II baby boom and between them and the early 1970's, thus predate those of their outer suburban or exurban counterparts. They tend to lose investment starting in the 2000's due to the continued development of suburban fringes taking investment and the revitalization of downtown areas. They are divided into two types: streetcar suburbs and early subdivisions.
In the United States, the first suburbs were small developments in rural areas a reasonable distance from cities. They were served by expensive early commuter rail. Their growth was heavily limited by their demographics, the extremely wealthy. They built what is now the little open space left, sprawling country clubs to socialize with friends in the midst of then vast pastures. Examples include Yonkers, Villanova, and Brookline.[1] They are characterized by vast country clubs taking up massive portions of the land.[2]
Then came horse-drawn streetcars. They expanded the fringe of the urban area, and catered to a slightly lower income demographic, allowing a layer of land to be developed in proximity of most major American cities, which could be as much as 25% less dense than conventional suburbs (due to the 1.5 times greater speeds of horsecars). [3]
Electrification, though, was what began to build large areas of suburbs (now inner suburbs) out of the exurbanized (leapfrog developed) patchwork of railroad suburbs, golf courses, and farms as well as working class sprawl close to the city (accessed by horsecar). [4]