Studies with an emphasis on locational patterns and their interpretation.
Studies of rural and urban populations considered together. Studies that are concerned primarily with the movement of population are classified under H. Migration . Studies concerned with the definition of urban or rural areas and with boundary changes are classified here or in O.1. Population Statistics, General Aspects .
62:30040 Dupont, Véronique; Mitra,
Arup. Population distribution, growth and socio-economic
spatial patterns in Delhi: findings from the 1991 census data.
Demography India, Vol. 24, No. 1, Jan-Jun 1995. 101-32 pp. Delhi,
India. In Eng.
"The objective of this paper is threefold: to
provide an original set of reference maps describing the differential
spatial pattern of population distribution and growth in Delhi, on the
basis of the 1991 census data...; to identify the variables which seem
to generate the highest degree of residential segregation, and also to
reveal forms of privileged associations between population groups
identified by their socio-economic characteristics and certain areas;
to analyse the residential pattern of the different categories of
workers in relation to the location of the main economic activities, in
order to detect patterns of close association between work place and
residence, or, on the contrary, patterns of
separation."
Correspondence: V. Dupont, Institut
Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement
en Coopération, 213 rue Lafayette, 75480 Paris Cedex 10, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Studies of urban populations, including those of metropolitan areas and suburban and semi-urban zones. Also includes studies on urbanization insofar as they relate to the effects of migration on urban areas or the socioeconomic and demographic structure of urban populations. Studies on the actual process of rural-urban migration are coded under H.6. Rural-Urban Migration .
62:30041 Crook, Nigel. India's
industrial cities: essays in economy and demography. SOAS Studies
on South Asia, 1993. [vi], 181 pp. Oxford University Press: Delhi,
India. In Eng.
This book consists of seven essays in which the
author examines some of the positive aspects of urbanization in India.
He points out that "the industrial city is one of India's major
resources. It is a creation of the process of industrialization, which
is itself fundamental to economic growth, critical though one may be of
the character that the growth process has assumed. The demand for
industrial labour has been the prime mover behind the formation of
these cities, and a significant factor in the sustained progress of
urbanization itself. The demographic outcomes of industrialization are
diverse, as diverse as are the industrial processes themselves. Their
social implications are problematic: but these need addressing on their
own terms, and not by stifling the very process
itself."
Correspondence: Oxford University Press, YMCA
Library Building, Jai Singh Road, Delhi 110 001, India. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
62:30042 Drakakis-Smith, David.
Third world cities: sustainable urban development II--population,
labour and poverty. Urban Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4-5, May 1996.
673-701 pp. Abingdon, England. In Eng.
This is one in a series of
overview articles examining aspects of urbanization in developing
countries. This article is concerned with the relationship between
demographic issues, employment, and poverty in third-world cities. It
begins with a description of some of the main dimensions of the
urbanization process, including both natural increase and migration.
Sections are included on employment and urban labor markets and on
poverty and urbanization.
Correspondence: D.
Drakakis-Smith, University of Liverpool, Department of Geography, Roxby
Building, Liverpool L69 3BX, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (UES).
62:30043 Frey, William H.; Fielding, Elaine
L. New dynamics of urban-suburban change: immigration,
restructuring, and racial separation. In: Demographic and
structural change: the effects of the 1980s on American society, edited
by Dennis L. Peck and J. Selwyn Hollingsworth. 1996. 18-62 pp.
Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut. In Eng.
"This chapter
provides a backdrop for understanding the changing population profiles
of urban America by focusing on the forces that shape key demographic
trends across broad regions and within metropolitan areas. It then goes
on to show how these trends have led to disparities in area growth and
decline and in socio-demographic change. The new changes in the
nation's urban landscape are strongly influenced by three
elements....Each of these three broad trends--the increased growth of
minorities, the new disparities in urban growth and decline, and the
suburban dominance of metropolitan activities--are signature
characteristics of contemporary urban America. These trends serve to
shape evolving patterns of growth, decline, and minority concentration
across broad regions, as well as within selected metropolitan
areas....Because minority concentration is occurring both across
regions and within metropolitan areas, the roles of immigration and
national minority growth, and their selective impact on the internal
redistribution of minorities
is...discussed."
Correspondence: W. H. Frey,
University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, Population Studies
Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30044 Greenfield, Gerald M.
Latin American urbanization: historical profiles of major
cities. ISBN 0-313-25937-2. LC 93-13015. 1994. xvii, 536 pp.
Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut. In Eng.
This book contains
21 chapters by various authors describing urbanization in a specific
country in Latin America or the Caribbean. "Chapters begin with an
essay that provides significant geographic information and an overview
of the nation's urban development. Profiles of selected cities, again
with a historical orientation, follow. Hence, this handbook presents
both national-level and city-specific perspectives on the urban
experience of the region."
Correspondence: Greenwood
Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881-5007.
Location: Princeton University Library (UES).
62:30045 Jain, M. K.; Ghosh, Minati; Kim, Won
Bae. Emerging trends of urbanisation in India: an analysis
of 1991 census results. Census of India. Occasional Paper, No. 1
of 1993, 1993. xv, 79 pp. Office of the Registrar General: New Delhi,
India. In Eng.
"An attempt is made in this study to
explore...the dynamics of urban population growth at the all India
level and also in the major States during the last 2 to 3 decades after
providing back drop of the urban development in India. Accordingly the
scope of the present enquiry covers the following aspects:...urban
development in India--a historical perspective...levels and trends of
urbanisation--contemporary scene...dynamics of urban population
growth...[and] salient features of urbanisation." Data are from
the 1991 census.
Correspondence: Office of the Registrar
General, Ministry of Home Affairs, 2/A Mansingh Road, New Delhi 110
011, India. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30046 MacKellar, F. Landis; Vining, Daniel
R. Population concentration in less developed countries:
new evidence. Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 74, No. 3, Jul
1995. 259-93 pp. Urbana, Illinois. In Eng.
"Economic theory
associates the increase in population concentration, i.e., the
proportion of national population residing in the core economic region,
with scale and agglomeration economies. Wheaton and Shishido (1981)
estimated that these persist until real per capita national income
reaches 5,000 1985 U.S. dollars....After this point in a country's
economic development, they predicted, population redistribution towards
the core region will cease and the proportion of national population
residing in the core region will commence to decline....This paper
updates previously reported trends in population redistribution in LDCs
and reports on many new countries. Taken as a whole, post-war data
reinforce the need for caution....While there is a weak negative
correlation between the rate of net migration into the core region and
per capita income, the share of population residing in the core region
may continue to rise even when per capita income has grown to well
beyond $5,000."
Correspondence: F. L. MacKellar,
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg,
Austria. Location: Princeton University Library (UES).
62:30047 Micheli, Giuseppe A.; Clerici,
Renata. Urban structure and mobility. [Morfologia e
mobilità urbana.] Equivalenze, No. 1, ISBN 88-204-9662-3. 1996.
185 pp. FrancoAngeli: Milan, Italy. In Ita.
This work contains
three separate studies by different authors on urbanization in
contemporary Italy. The first, by Renata Clerici, examines aspects of
residential choice in Padua by families in 1982; the second, by
Oliviero Casacchia and Luisa Natale, analyzes residential and social
mobility in Rome; and the third, by G. A. Micheli and M. C. Debernardi,
examines urban mobility and suburbanization in
Palermo.
Correspondence: FrancoAngeli, Viale Monza 106,
20127 Milan, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:30048 Moriconi-Ebrard,
François. The agglomerated population.
[L'humanité agglomérée.] Bulletin de l'Association
de Géographes Français, 1994-1995. 529-42 pp. Paris,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"This article gives a
general view on the evolution of urban populations in the world from
1950 to 1990 (populations living in agglomerations of more than 10,000
inhabitants), through the data base Geopolis that the author has
[developed]."
Correspondence: F. Moriconi-Ebrard,
Observatoire Urbain du Caire Contemporain, 14 rue Gamayet el Nisr, P.O.
Box 494, Doqqi Mdandessin, Cairo, Egypt. Location: Cornell
University Library, Ithaca, NY.
62:30049 Obudho, R. A. Small
urban centres in Africa: a bibliographical survey. ISBN
9966-9885-4-8. Jan 1995. x, 134 pp. UN Centre for Regional Development:
Nagoya, Japan; Centre for Urban Research [CUR]: Nairobi, Kenya. In Eng.
This unannotated bibliography on small and intermediate urban
centers in Africa contains 1,581 citations and is organized by country.
An author index is provided.
Correspondence: UN Centre for
Regional Development, Africa Office, P.O. Box 30218, Nairobi, Kenya.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30050 Ren, Jun; White, Roger.
The simulation of urban system dynamics in Atlantic Canada,
1951-1991. Canadian Geographer/Géographe Canadien, Vol. 39,
No. 3, Fall 1995. 252-62 pp. Montreal, Canada. In Eng. with sum. in
Fre.
"A dynamic urban model is used to study the post-war
evolution of the Atlantic Canada urban system. The computer-based
simulation model is calibrated for the period 1951-86 and then employed
to predict the 1991 population of each CMA and CA within the system.
The simulation results show that, to a large extent, the evolution of
the system can be understood in terms of endogenous system dynamics
rather than exogenous events. Specifically, competition among the
cities of the region is a significant factor in the urban system
evolution. The high degree of abstraction of the model means that data
requirements for application are minimal, and the calibration procedure
is relatively simple. The successful predictions show that the model
can yield useful results in spite of its
simplicity."
Correspondence: R. White, Memorial
University of Newfoundland, Department of Geography, St. John's,
Newfoundland A1B 3X9, Canada. Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
62:30051 Rivera Guzmán,
Salvador. Development and regional urbanization in Mexico,
1970-1990. [Desarrollo y urbanización regional en
México, 1970-1990.] Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos, Vol.
9, No. 3, Sep-Dec 1994. 657-99, 785 pp. Mexico City, Mexico. In Spa.
with sum. in Eng.
"Here regional urbanization in Mexico is
studied as a function of income level and production structures. This
general model allows us to identify four characteristics that are
inherent to urban development for the 1970-1990
period."
Correspondence: S. Rivera Guzmán, El
Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Demográficos y de
Desarrollo Urbano, Camino al Ajusco 20, 10740 Mexico City, DF, Mexico.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30052 Roy, B. K. Urban growth
in India and its contemporary relevance. Geographical Review of
India, Vol. 55, No. 1, Mar 1993. 12-21 pp. Calcutta, India. In Eng.
"The paper deals with...urban growth in India in general with
relevance to urban agglomerations of major significance on the basis of
[the] Census of 1991. In addition the urban growth during 1981-91 is
viewed in accordance with the projected population and the actual count
as undertaken in the 1991 Census operations. Some of the questions
arising out of the contemporary trends in these areas...may be of
concern for academic and planning processes. More elaborate synthesis
is obviously required when the detailed tables on socio-economic
parameters are given by the Census in due course to cross-classify and
examine more aspects of population at various
levels."
Correspondence: B. K. Roy, National Atlas and
Thematic Mapping Organisation, Government of India, Calcutta 700 091,
India. Location: Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH.
62:30053 Wilson, Frank H. Urban
redevelopment and the post-industrial city: the persistence of
gentrification in central cities, 1980-1990. In: Demographic and
structural change: the effects of the 1980s on American society, edited
by Dennis L. Peck and J. Selwyn Hollingsworth. 1996. 142-68 pp.
Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut. In Eng.
The author
evaluates "the population and housing changes that occurred in the
largest U.S. cities between 1980 and 1990 and [uses] these sociological
facts as a context for examining gentrification. Data from the U.S.
Census of Population and Housing will inform this discussion. The
organization of this chapter is threefold: First, changes in the
population and housing of U.S. cities experiencing revitalization are
documented and described. Second, these population and housing changes
are analyzed and evaluated in the context of economic restructuring,
regional development, and post-industrial urbanization. Third, the
implications of these changes for theory, research, and policy are
discussed."
Correspondence: F. H. Wilson, University
of Wisconsin, Department of Sociology, Milwaukee, WI 53201.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Studies of agricultural and farming populations.
62:30054 Higueras-Arnal, Antonio.
The rural population of Spain. [La population rurale
espagnole.] Espace, Populations, Sociétés, No. 1, 1996.
103-9 pp. Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"The Spanish rural population has fallen considerably in the
last thirty years. In 1900, the rural population (living in villages of
3,000 inhabitants, or less) was 6.87 million (37 per cent of the total
population). In 1993 the same population had dropped to 7 per cent
(2.81 million) and at the beginning of the next century it will be 2.1
million. The rural depopulation has been due to the large scale
emigration to the cities between 1950 and 1975. This has produced a
demographic vacuum in most of inner Spain, where the provincial
capitals stand out like demographic oases. In spite of this, since 1985
there has been a revitalization of the rural areas near the cities or
away from them but with good access."
Correspondence:
A. Higueras-Arnal, Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de
Geografía y Ordenación del Territorio, 50009 Zaragoza,
Spain. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
