Analyzes the scale and size distribution of U.S. metropolitan areas from 1910-95. Before World War II, the population became increasingly concentrated in the largest metropolitan areas in the top decile of size distribution. Since 1950, there has been loss of population share for these areas. This is not counterbalanced by increasing share among…

Revision of a paper prepared for discussion at the Columbia University Seminar on Population and Social Change, December 1967.

Changes due to the 1970 census figures and new Census Bureau methodology have caused new requirements for central cities, revised integration criteria, and consolidation of some metropolitan areas. (ND)

This series of maps shows how Japanese-American communities developed and changed in Los Angeles over the past century. The geographical changes, the population growth, and the locations of businesses and institutions are shown for five communities. (VM)

Reviews the work of American urban historians, noting that historians lagged far behind other disciplines in discovering the significance of industrialization and suburbanization on the American character. Contains an extensive bibliography of the literature in this field. (JDH)

Reports an investigation of the institutional structure of the national consumer education effort in an attempt to answer questions about types of existing programs in preparation for later curriculum design and evaluation. (Editor)

Examines data taken from a 109-city sample to describe patterns of racial change in the context of segregation decline between 1970 and 1980. Integration occurred more through decline in the proportion of Black residents in areas defined as mostly Black (deconcentration) than through Blacks moving into mostly White neighborhoods (integration).…

Analyzes changes in relative decentralization for Blacks in 40 metropolitan statistical areas during the 1970s. Although there is substantial suburbanization among Blacks, measured conventionally, evidence implies that Blacks will gain little if job growth, high-quality education, and superior environments follow Whites as they move further into…

This paper describes and tests a series of hypotheses about the effects of locality characteristics upon the growth of nonmetropolitan urban places. In the cross-sectional analysis of this study, the potential effectiveness of resource-based development seems limited as a factor in urban growth except in the North Central region. On the other…

This article contends that an urban ethnic community is capable of developing coinciding spatial and sociocultural boundaries. This correspondence will be strengthened when the leaders of the ethnic community perceive that demographic concentration is politically advantageous. The case of the Sikh population of Vancouver supports this contention.…

Describes how renovation and a little imagination can convert a city's older commercial buildings into sensitive, supportive quarters for education. The demographic changes within New York are offered as an example to other cities of the need for new kinds of facilities, rather than the need for new additional structures. (Author/WM)

Analyzes the racial breakdowns of population by census tract for Chicago; these figures, released in April 1970 by the Bureau of Census, use the Negro consolidation index which measures the rapidity of racial turnover of a neighborhood after entry by blacks. (JM)

Streets in European cities have an esthetics, an urbaness and a pleasurable humaneness that their American counterparts lack. The American street will change only when our concept of the city itself has changed. (Author)

The number of people moving away from the standard metropolitan statistical areas is greater than the number moving to them. Economic factors, demographic trends, and social values responsible for this change are discussed. Economic functions, the physical environment, and the government of the new, emerging metropolis are examined. (RM)

The paper assesses changes in class origin of three racial groups of teachers (White, Black, and Mexican American) in a major Southwestern metropolis. Variables associated with a desire to quit teaching are measured. Findings indicate when class origin is introduced as a control, race ceases to differentiate between those planning to leave…