60:10058 Al-Sa'adi,
Abbas F. Spatial diffusion of the population of Al-Jazirah
region in Iraq. Population Bulletin of ESCWA, No. 35-37,
1989-1990. 99-127 pp. Amman, Jordan. In Eng.
"The aim of this study
is to illustrate the picture of the spatial diffusion of the population
in Al-Jazirah in the north-west of Iraq....The region was studied in
the light of the 1977 census and compared with the data of the 1987
census to determine the extent of change in population diffusion during
the period between the two censuses."
Correspondence: A. F.
Al-Sa'adi, University of Baghdad, Faculty of Arts, Geography
Department, P.O. Box 12, Jadiriya, Baghdad, Iraq. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:10059 Bender,
Rainer J. Studies on population and social geography.
[Studien zur Bevolkerungs- und Sozialgeographie.] Mannheimer
Geographische Arbeiten, No. 34, ISBN 3-923750-33-1. LC 92-169815. 1991.
iii, 185 pp. Universitat Mannheim, Geographisches Institut: Mannheim,
Germany. In Ger.
This publication deals with population and social
geography, and includes eight papers by various authors. Five of the
papers focus on West Germany. Papers are included on changes in
population distribution and structure as indicators of spatial economic
change in Baden-Wurttemberg; suburbanization in West Germany, with
emphasis on the Hamburg region during 1970-1987; commuting and spatial
structure in the Rhine-Neckar region since 1961; foreigners in
Mannheim; spatial structural analysis and urban models using the
example of Mannheim; spatial differences in mortality in Latin America,
with a focus on infant mortality in Costa Rica and Chile; immigration
policy and population trends in Canada and Australia during the
twentieth century; and demographic and socioeconomic effects of the
colonial period of African cities using the example of Lusaka,
Zambia.
Correspondence: Universitat Mannheim,
Geographisches Institut, Schloss, Postfach 103462, 6800 Mannheim 1,
Germany. Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
60:10065 Ahmad,
Nuzhat. Choice of location and mobility behaviour of
migrant households in a third world city. Urban Studies, Vol. 29,
No. 7, Oct 1992. 1,147-57 pp. Abingdon, England. In Eng.
"Initial
settlement patterns, locational choice between neighbourhoods and
mobility behaviour of migrant households in Karachi [Pakistan]...are
analysed in this research. A key result of the research is that ethnic
considerations are dominating choice of location and are also a major
influence on the subsequent mobility of migrant households. Therefore,
residential segregation in terms of ethnicity is likely to
increase....This may have disastrous spatial consequences in view of
the increased ethnic disturbances in the city. The migrant households
are also seen to settle mostly in peripheral Katchi Abadis, which is
stretching the city outward. Per capita costs of service provision are
increasing as a consequence....Policies to limit migration and urban
sprawl are recommended...."
Correspondence: N. Ahmad,
University of Karachi, Applied Economics Research Centre, P.O. Box
8403, Karachi 75270, Pakistan. Location: Princeton University
Library (UES).
60:10066 Akkerman,
Abraham. Fuzzy targeting of population niches in urban
planning and the fractal dimension of demographic change. Urban
Studies, Vol. 29, No. 7, Oct 1992. 1,093-113 pp. Abingdon, England. In
Eng.
"Considering the ultimate use of demographic information in
urban planning, an alternative reference framework is being proposed
along with an application procedure. It is aimed at measuring change
[in Canada] between two census dates in four demographic parameters,
throughout a conglomerate of subareas. This enables the simultaneous
monitoring of demographic change across the conglomerate, listing the
subareas by a fuzzy value of change in any of the four parameters. The
fuzzy measurement of several demographic parameters compensates for the
precision measurement of survivorship, fertility and migration in
cohort demography. The degree of fuzziness in the selected parameters,
furthermore, allows us to view the record of demographic change in each
small area as a fractal relating to the whole city. The degree of
fuzziness and the size of small-area populations are related to the
fractal dimension of demographic change in the city as a
whole."
Correspondence: A. Akkerman, University of
Saskatchewan, Department of Geography, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W0,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (UES).
60:10086 Dacquel,
Laarni T.; Dahmann, Donald C. Residents of farms and rural
areas: 1991. Current Population Reports, Series P-20: Population
Characteristics, No. 472, Aug 1993. iv, 33, [23] pp. U.S. Bureau of the
Census: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"This report presents statistics
on residents of farms and rural areas as reported in the [U.S.] Current
Population Survey (CPS). Based on that survey, the 1991 estimate of the
rural farm population is 4,632,000; the estimate of the rural
population...is 67,962,000 persons. This report provides information on
the geographic and regional distributions of the farm and rural
populations, and the text details demographic, social, economic, and
educational characteristics of farm and nonfarm
populations."
Correspondence: U.S. Government Printing
Office, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. 20402.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:10087 Johnson,
Kenneth M. Demographic change in nonmetropolitan America,
1980 to 1990. Rural Sociology, Vol. 58, No. 3, Fall 1993. 347-65
pp. Bozeman, Montana. In Eng.
"This research provides detailed
information about...demographic trends [in nonmetropolitan areas in the
United States] between 1980 and 1990. Specifically, the paper briefly
reviews the overall trends of population redistribution in nonmetro
areas between 1980 and 1990; considers nonmetro net migration patterns
in some detail; examines nonmetro patterns of natural increase between
1980 and 1990, with particular attention to the emerging phenomenon of
natural decrease; and considers the implications of these
trends....Most of the data used are from the U.S. decennial censuses of
population for 1970, 1980, and 1990."
Correspondence: K. M.
Johnson, Loyola University, Department of Sociology, Chicago, IL
60626. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
