This report marks the inaugural edition of a regular summary report in Brookings' "State of Metropolitan America" series. It focuses on the major demographic forces transforming the nation and large metropolitan areas in the 2000s. In this sense, it previews what people will learn from the results of the 2010 census, as well as supplements those…

There is a need for a national policy that will redirect the alarmingly rapid concentration of large numbers of people in small areas. (CK)

Political-economic sociologists have long investigated the dynamics and consequences of international trade. With few exceptions, this area of inquiry ignores the possible connections between trade and environmental degradation. In contrast, environmental sociologists have made several assumptions about the environmental impacts of international…

This article deals with the problems of modeling the population densities of cities. Two types of models, the quadratic gamma and the equilibrium, are discussed and compared. (Author/MK)

This document is one in a series of studies that focus on the population policies and plans of a number of mega-cities in developing countries. The object of the series is to examine the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of the population policies of mega-cities from a broad perspective, emphasizing the reciprocal links between…

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…

Four papers in this issue focus on population and urban growth in: (1) sub-Saharan Africa; (2) Latin America; (3) the Soviet Union; and (4) Japan and China. While each region has unique population features, similarities exist based on northern or southern hemisphere geographic locations and on a communist or non-communist political orientation.…

Urban economy, society, and technology are undergoing great and simultaneous changes. Problems created by this call for a new look, a rebuilding with a sense of justice and equal treatment. If present trend continues, the untrained, and uneducated poor will become dominant inner-city groups in all major cities. (Author/AM)

Appropriate for secondary school students, this kit provides the basics of population dynamics in both written and visual form. Each chart covers a major population component, characteristic, or world trend. The chart titles are: (1) "World Population Growth through History," (2) "Population Growth through Natural Increase, 1775 to 1985, (3)…

This article is based on a talk by the author during Career Weekend at Wabash College, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees.

Discusses Toronto's postwar development as measured by: population growth patterns; households; families; age structure; dwelling type; and labor force participation. Growth rings based on municipal boundaries are used as the basis for all analyses. Policy issues related to physical/social environment and women's role related to urban growth are…

Discusses the interrelated crises in population growth, natural resources, and environmental quality. Major problems include population control, redirection of technology, closed resource cycles, equitable opportunity distribution and prosperity. Population growth is regarded as causing a disportionate world-wide negative environmental impact.…

Communication in the urban environment is complex. "Sometimes it's erroneous, sometimes it's shoddy, sometimes it just doesn't exist at all. And sometimes it exists all too much, refusing to go away..." It is clear that with increasing population and information, we need more effective communication among people. A need for better communication…

Using 18 indicators of various aspects of urban life, this study analyzes the effects of size and growth on 115 American cities. (Author/RLV)

A total of 19 charts, each with a brief narrative interpretation, present information on major features of population trends in the United States. Residents of 212 metropolitan areas (central cities with population of 50,000 or more) equalled 64 percent of the population of the U.S. in 1968. The distribution of the population differed greatly by…