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Thomas, Donald W. – 1986
This study of population change in Ohio during the 1960s and 1970s analyzed change by size of place and found sharp contrasts between the two decades. Places in metropolitan core counties which had the highest growth rate in the 1960s showed that lowest growth rate in the 1970s. Small towns in fringe metropolitan areas and nonmetropolitan counties…
Descriptors: Community Size, Municipalities, Population Distribution, Population Growth
Peer reviewedLockwood, Catherine M. – International Journal of Social Education, 1990
Investigates townsite distribution in South Dakota's land settlement pattern. Reviews past theories explaining eastern South Dakota's systematic spacing of towns along rail lines. Indicates a correlation between railroad functions and town development, advancing the theory that nineteenth-century railroad technology, involving traffic control and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Correlation, Human Geography, Land Settlement
