Population, Distribution, and PolicyCommission on Population Growth and the American Future, 1973 - 719 pages |
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50 percent Atlantic average Balance of area Camas County Census central cities central-city Colorado Piedmont concentration Conterminous United counties decade decline defense demographic East North Central economic effect employment Federal fertility fiscal geographic growth centers growth rate housing Idaho impact income industrial labor force less major ment metro metropolitan areas metropolitan county metropolitan growth metropolitan population Metropolitan Statistical Areas migration million mobility move national population natural increase nonwhite Northeast outmigration patterns Percent metropolitan Nonmetropolitan percentage places growing population density population distribution population growth problems programs projections proportion racial ratio redistribution relative Research residential residents rural areas Salt Lake Valley Series E Metropolitan SMSA SMSA's social South square mile structure suburban suburbs Table tion total population Total White Black trends U.S. Bureau U.S. Congress unemployed urban areas Urban Regions variable West workers York
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Page 292 - Managers, officials, and proprietors, except farm Clerical and kindred workers Sales workers Craftsmen, foremen, and kindred workers...
Page 107 - This research was supported by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and...
Page 281 - Economics," it has been said, "is all about how people make choices; sociology is all about why they don't have any choices to make.
Page 442 - To continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one, largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and in outlying areas.
Page 235 - ... general concept of a metropolitan area is one of an integrated economic and social unit with a recognized large population nucleus.
Page 616 - They correspond to what are called "conurbations" in some other countries. An urbanized area contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more in 1960, as well as the surrounding closely settled incorporated places and unincorporated areas that meet the criteria listed below.
Page v - Commission by independent scholars and lawyers who have served as directors of our staff task forces and study teams; they are not reports by the Commission itself. Publication of any of the reports should not be taken to imply endorsement of their contents by the Commission, or by any member of the Commission's staff, including the Executive' Director and other staff officers, not directly responsible for the preparation of the particular report. Both the credit and the responsibility for the reports...
Page 582 - August B. Hollingshead, Elmtown's Youth (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1949); and Lloyd W.
Page 476 - The Distribution and Movement of Jobs and Industry," in The Metropolitan Enigma, ed. James Q. Wilson (Washington, DC, 1967).
Page x - Rex Ramsey, MD: Director of Maternal and Child Health Division, Arkansas State Health Department Trusten H. Holder: Private Consultant in the Areas of Ecological Studies, Outdoor Recreation, Environmental Planning, Little Rock Pratt Remmel, Jr.: Director, Arkansas Ecology Center, Little Rock The Hon.