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Causes of Urban Sprawl in the United States: Auto Reliance as Compared to Natural Evolution, Flight from Blight, and Local Revenue Reliance
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Wassmer, Robert W. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
This paper describes a statistical study of the contribution of theories previously offered by economists to explain differences in the degree of urban decentralization in the U.S. The focus is on a relative comparison of the influence of auto reliance. A regression analysis reveals that a 10 percent reduction in the percentage of households…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Administrative Organization, Population Distribution, Income
World Urbanization Prospects: The 1992 Revision. Estimates and Projections of Urban and Rural Populations and of Urban Agglomerations.
United Nations New York, NY. Dept. of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis. – 1993
This United Nation's publication presents data on the size and growth of urban and rural populations for all countries of the world and contains revised estimates and projections for all urban agglomerations that had at least one million inhabitants in 1990. Chapter 1 presents levels of urbanization and future trends for urban and rural…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Population Distribution, Population Growth, Population Trends
World Urbanization Prospects: The 1994 Revision. Estimates and Projections of Urban and Rural Populations and of Urban Agglomerations.
United Nations New York, NY. Dept. of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis. – 1995
This publication presents data from the current revision of estimates and projections of the size and growth of urban and rural populations for all countries of the world. The publication also contains revised estimates and projections for all urban agglomerations of at least 750,000 inhabitants in 1994. The revisions are part of a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Geography, Population Distribution, Population Growth