Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2021
U.S. metro areas--including metropolitan Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), Urbanized Areas, and Commuting Zones …--stray far from this conception. We develop a flexible algorithm that uses commuting flows among U.S. census tracts in 2000 to … commuting flows and excluding sparsely settled land, our Kernel-Based Metropolitan Areas (KBMAs) capture almost all of the …