ABSTRACT
The sociospatial approach to metropolitan life asserts that diversity in lifestyles and subcultures exists not just within the city but throughout the metropolitan region. This chapter considers the interplay between the social factors of income, gender, age, ethnicity and race, and the spatial patterns of population concentration or dispersal across the metropolitan region. It also considers the interplay between the social factors of income, gender, age, ethnicity and race, and the spatial patterns of population concentration or dispersal across the metropolitan region. The chapter shows how differences in sociospatial factors affect the way people live, their interactions with others, and their use of space. In a few short decades, the new immigrants of will become part of an even greater American mosaic, living in ethnic neighborhoods if they choose to or living alongside other groups across the metropolitan region. Each lifestyle manifests its own daily rhythm within the settlement spaces each group has created within the metropolitan region.
