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Selvik, Arne, Comp.; Summers, Gene F., Comp. – 1977
A reference for program and research planning on industrialization in nonmetropolitan (rural) areas, this annotated bibliography cites U.S. case studies on social impacts caused by rural industrial growth completed between 1965 and 1974. More than 150 journal articles (written by economists, geographers, and sociologists) and research reports…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors, Employment
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Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. Economic Development Div. – 1975
From 1940 to 1970, the United States was characterized by both rapid population growth and rapid urbanization. However, in the 1970's, both of these trends have diminished. A decline in the birth rate has brought lower overall growth--with the decline being the greatest in the major metropolitan areas. There is firm evidence of shift in population…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Economic Development, Farm Labor
Beale, Calvin L. – 1975
U.S. Census data (1970-74) comparing population trends in the West were analyzed in reference to the recent urban to rural migration patterns exemplified by a total U.S. metropolitan population growth of 3.4 percent vs a nonmetropolitan growth of 5.6 percent (1970-74). In the West it was found that: (1) population increased 6.9 percent with…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Futures (of Society), Migration Patterns, Population Growth
Darden, Joe T. – 1976
The results of research designed to measure black residential segregation outside the central cities (i.e., the suburbs) of ten areas of Michigan are reported. The census data suggest that while substantial migration of blacks into the suburbs occurred in several areas of Michigan during the 1960's, the suburban black population numbers remained…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Demography, Housing Discrimination, Integration Studies
Sewel, J. – 1974
The charge has often been made that in peripheral regions of Scotland the secondary educational system has contributed to rural depopulation, since students often must leave the rural community for a distant, centralized secondary school located in an urban area where values and aspirations differ from those of rural communities. In a study of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Curriculum, Educational Policy, Expectation
Porter, Pearl – 1969
The economic and social background of migrant farm workers in America; the environments in which they live, work, and are educated; and their general relationship to laws relevant to them form the first part of this book. Part II examines the education of migrant children, the results of poverty and deprivation, the characteristics of the migrant…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Health, Housing, Legislation
Belcher, John C. – 1970
Modern human ecologists, the scientific saviors of the day, are likely to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors, discredited decades ago, who borrowed the concepts and theories of the biological ecologists and attempted to apply them directly to urban life. If human ecology is to be re-established as a scientific discipline it needs to use as…
Descriptors: Community Study, Ecology, Environmental Research, Migration Patterns
Southwestern North Carolina Planning and Development Commission, Sylva. – 1970
Six counties (Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, and Swain) in southwestern North Carolina have formed a planning and development commission which is legally responsible for all project approval in the area. In the document, a brief history of each county is provided in terms of what has been done in relation to the natural and human…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Economics, Education, Health
Dayton Human Relations Commission, OH. – 1966
Southern Appalachians who had migrated to East Dayton, Ohio, neighborhoods were studied to determine group characteristics, the degree of urban adjustment, and problem areas in social behavior and culture conflict. Interviews were conducted with 5 community leaders, 5 area students who attended a workshop on urban adjustment of migrants, and 5…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Culture Conflict, Economically Disadvantaged
Rabiega, William A.
Introductory materials for an intraurban residential migration classroom game and appended game materials are designed for use as an introduction to an urban geography course or an illustration of social processes and methods in a behavioral geography course. The introduction explains the game organization and play, details the concepts it is…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Games, Geography
Gunlogson, G. B. – 1972
A distortion has grown up between urban and rural economies creating a condition where neither is able to sustain itself, thus restricting individual opportunities. At one time, 98 percent of the U.S. depended on the rural economy. Interrelated developments such as the input of ideas, enterprise, mechanical innovations, the opening of new and…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Opportunities, Innovation, Land Use
Peterson, John H., Jr. – 1970
The socioeconomic condition of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians was surveyed in the fall of 1968. Using a questionnaire, 570 Choctaw households in 7 communities were interviewed by Choctaw Agency personnel. Information gathered included population figures by age, sex, and residence; educational attainment, aspirations, and use of English;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Community Surveys, Employment Statistics
Tait, John L.; Johnson, Arthur H. – 1971
The trends in population distribution and the composition of Iowa's population are reported in this document in order to provide the leaders and citizens of Iowa with information to assist them in making decisions relating to growth and development. Birth and death rates, rural and urban residence, population by race, and age structure are…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Area Studies, Census Figures, Community Services
Good Neighbor Commission of Texas, Austin. – 1971
The Good Neighbor Commission of Texas, organized under a Federal grant in 1943 and later constituted as an agency of state government by legislative mandate, is charged under its basic law to coordinate the work of the Federal, State, and local government units endeavoring to improve the travel and working conditions of Texas migrant farm workers.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Annual Reports, Bilingual Education, Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Compensatory Education. – 1973
The revised handbook provides specific references to the legislation and the National Migrant Program Guidelines, while setting forth the administrative procedures required for migrant projects in North Carolina. Specific topics of discussion in migrant program administration cover Public Law 89-750, state and local educational agency…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrator Guides, Ancillary Services, Educational Finance
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