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.
63:40047 Cori, Berardo; Lazzeroni,
Michela. Is the population of Tuscany moving inland?
[Vers une délittoralisation de la population en Toscane?]
Méditerranée, Vol. 81, No. 1.2, 1995. 117-20 pp.
Aix-en-Provence, France. In Fre.
Recent changes in settlement
patterns in the Italian province of Tuscany are analyzed. The authors
note a general movement of the population away from the coastal areas
toward the interior of the province, and discuss the reasons for this
change.
Correspondence: B. Cori, Università degli
Studi, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e del Territorio, Lungarno
Pacinotti 45, 56100 Pisa, Italy. Location: Dartmouth College
Library, Hanover, NH.
63:40048 Dahmann, Donald C.; Fitzsimmons,
James D. Metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas: new
approaches to geographical definition. Population Division Working
Paper Series, No. 12, LC 96-188025. Sep 1995. 250 pp. U.S. Bureau of
the Census: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This report contains four
studies on new approaches to identifying and presenting elements of the
settlement system in the United States. The focus is on establishing
definitions of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. The studies
included are as follows: Classifying settled areas of the United
States: conceptual issues and proposals for new approaches, by John S.
Adams. Capturing evolving realities: statistical areas for the American
future, by Brian J. L. Berry. Metropolitan areas as functional
communities, by William H. Frey and Alden Speare, Jr. Metropolitan
concepts and statistics report, by Richard L.
Morrill.
Correspondence: U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Population Division, Washington, D.C. 20233. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40049 de Saint-Moulin,
Léon. The evolution of the population densities of
Zaire. [L'évolution des densités de la population du
Zaïre.] Revue Belge de Géographie, Vol. 119, No. 1-2, 1995.
95-102 pp. Brussels, Belgium. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
Changes in
the spatial distribution of the population of Zaire are analyzed at the
regional level using data from the 1984 census. Comparisons are made
with previous descriptions of the spatial distribution published by the
Free University of Brussels in 1948. Significant migration both among
regions and to the major urban areas is noted.
Correspondence:
L. de Saint-Moulin, Facultés Catholiques de Kinshasa,
Kinshasa, Zaire. Location: Cornell University Library, Ithaca,
NY.
63:40050 Dorling, Daniel. The
detailed human geography of Britain. Geography Review, Vol. 8, No.
5, May 1995. 18-22 pp. Deddington, England. In Eng.
"This
article contains eight cartograms which help to provide answers to a
variety of social and demographic questions about modern Britain. How
English is England? How is the pattern of birth-places changing? Is
there a north-south divide in the nation's health? Are the inner cities
less healthy than rural areas? Has the changing pattern of unemployment
eroded the economic divide between north and south? How do the various
political, social and demographic patterns of modern Britain relate to
each other?"
Correspondence: D. Dorling, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Geography, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1
7RU, England. Location: Indiana University Library,
Bloomington, IN.
63:40051 Kontuly, Thomas; Vogelsang, Roland;
Schön, Karl P.; Maretzke, Steffen. Political
unification and regional consequences of German East-West
migration. International Journal of Population Geography, Vol. 3,
No. 1, Mar 1997. 31-47 pp. Chichester, England. In Eng.
"The
purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the post-unification
East to West transfer of the German population on levels of spatial
concentration and deconcentration in Eastern and Western Germany. Using
1991 internal migration data, it was found that German East-to-West
migration served to deconcentrate regional population in the West, but
concentrate population in the East. Regional variations in German
East-to-West migration during 1991 can be explained by the availability
of employment and housing, a distance-minimisation effect, and the
location of relatives and friends."
Correspondence: T.
Kontuly, University of Utah, Department of Geography, 270 Orson Spencer
Hall, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:40052 Walters, William H. A
digital map of Public-Use Microdata Areas in the 1990 U.S. census.
Cartographic Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, Jun 1997. 29-30 pp. Aberdeen,
Scotland. In Eng.
"Public-Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) are the
smallest geographic units for which many U.S. Census variables are
reported. In particular, 1990 microdata records for households and
individuals can be aggregated only by PUMA, metropolitan area, state,
and region. The Census Bureau distributes maps of these PUMAs only on
paper, however, and only for individual states. This note describes the
construction of a national, digital base map of the PUMAs used in the
1990 U.S. Census microdata files (5%
sample)."
Correspondence: W. H. Walters, Cornell
University, Arthur R. Mann Library, Ithaca, NY 14853-4301. E-mail:
whw2@cornell.edu. 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.
63:40053 Brennan, Ellen. The
proliferation of megacities: from 7 in 1950 to 33 in 2015--a logistic
challenge. [La prolifération des mégapoles: 7 en
1950, 33 en 2015, un défi logistique.] In: La population du
monde: enjeux et problèmes, edited by Jean-Claude Chasteland and
Jean-Claude Chesnais. 1997. 481-95 pp. Presses Universitaires de
France: Paris, France; Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques
[INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
Recent global trends in urbanization
are reviewed, with the focus on the growth of megacities with
populations of 8 million or more. The author examines some issues that
must be resolved if these megacities are to be managed successfully
with regard to issues such as building space and housing, transport,
water supply, sewage disposal, solid waste disposal, and water and air
pollution.
Correspondence: E. Brennan, UN Population
Division, DC2-1946, 2 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40054 Cai, Fang. The causes,
features of population migration and mobility and policy
implication. In: Research papers on interrelationship between
population growth in developing countries and global environment,
Volume II. Mar 3, 1997. 145-62 pp. National Institute of Population and
Social Security Research: Tokyo, Japan. In Eng.
"This paper
intends to disclose...causes [of] Chinese urbanization and
predict...trends of future urbanization and population mobility....[The
author assesses] possible policy adjustment through the study of
characteristics and behaviour of [the migrating] population and
floating population."
Correspondence: F. Cai, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Population Research Institute, 5 Jianguomen
Nei Da Jie 5 Hao, Beijing, China. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:40055 Chan, Kok Eng. The
dynamics of urban demographic change in Malaysia: an analysis of the
1991 population census. Asian Geographer, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1995.
58-70 pp. Hong Kong. In Eng.
"This paper examines how and to
what extent the three demographic components of urban change, urban
reclassification, natural increase and net migration, operated in
Malaysia between 1980 and 1991....Since there is a spatial dimension to
urban demographic changes, another emphasis of the paper is to
differentiate the areal patterns of such changes. The analysis is
conducted at both the national level and sub-national levels."
Data are from the Malaysian Department of Statistics. The author finds
that "the important role of natural increase in urban population
change is remarkable considering that a rapid fertility transition had
been unfolding in Malaysia up to the
mid-1970s."
Correspondence: K. E. Chan, University of
Malaya, Lembah Pantai, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Location:
University of Iowa Library, Ames, IA.
63:40056 Chapman, Graham P.; Pathak,
Pushpa. Indian urbanisation and the characteristics of
large Indian cities revealed in the 1991 census. Espace,
Populations, Sociétés, No. 2-3, 1997. 193-210 pp.
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
"In this
paper we report on some of the findings of an analysis of data from the
1991 [Indian] Census....The aim...is to analyse the spatial variation
of urbanisation in India, to some extent to contrast urban and rural
variables, and to examine in more detail the characteristics of the
large cities. Correlations within and between the data sets are
explored to see what further light these throw on the processes of
urbanisation and on urban structure. The paper is exploratory and
descriptive in nature."
Correspondence: G. P. Chapman,
Lancaster University, Department of Geography, Lancaster LA1 4YB,
England. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40057 Collin Delavaud, Anne.
Trends in population growth in the cities of Latin America.
[L'évolution de la croissance démographique des villes
d'Amérique latine.] Information Géographique, Vol. 60,
No. 1, Mar 1996. 1-9 pp. Paris, France. In Fre.
The future
demographic development of the cities of Latin America is discussed.
The author notes that after a century of urban growth, the rate of
growth has slowed, and urban development is spreading over larger
areas.
Correspondence: A. Collin Delavaud,
Université de Paris III, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75230 Paris
Cedex 05, France. Location: University of Minnesota Library,
Minneapolis, MN.
63:40058 Dupont, Véronique.
The "rurban populations" of Delhi. [Les
"rurbains" de Delhi.] Espace, Populations,
Sociétés, No. 2-3, 1997. 225-40 pp. Villeneuve d'Ascq,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"The rapid development of
Delhi [India] and its metropolitan area provides meaningful examples of
physical and/or functional integration between urban and rural spaces:
the establishment of a posh residential neighbourhood in the rural
fringes; the creation of a satellite town by annexation of the
agricultural lands of the existing villages; the constitution by
migrants from rural [origins] of life spaces including the metropolis
and their native village, which is illustrated here with the case of
the houseless population."
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).
63:40059 Kundu, Amitabh; Basu, D. N.;
Mahadevia, Darshini; Ghosh, Archana. Urban development and
urban research in India. ISBN 81-85495-07-6. LC 92-901270. 1992.
xiii, 162 pp. Khama Publishers: New Delhi, India. In Eng.
This book
examines the priorities and prejudices involved in urban planning and
urban research in India. There are chapters on a regional analysis of
patterns of urbanization, rural-urban linkages and agricultural
development, the management and financing of housing for the urban
poor, water supply and sanitation for the urban poor, and a survey of
research on urban development in India.
Correspondence:
Khama Publishers, 21-D Nivedita Enclave, A-6 Paschim Vihar, New
Delhi 110 063, India. Location: University of Pennsylvania
Library, Philadelphia, PA.
63:40060 Le Jeannic, Thomas.
Thirty years of suburbanization: the extension and dilution of
urban areas. [Trente ans de périurbanisation: extension et
dilution des villes.] Economie et Statistique, No. 307, Jul 1997.
21-41, 95-9 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Ger; Spa.
The growth of suburbanization in France over the period 1960-1990
is analyzed using data from official sources. "Suburbanisation
covers both a concentration of employment in urban areas, which
consequently attract all the more people, and a greater need for space
among large families who leave the saturated urban centres to live in
the surrounding areas. This phenomenon continued throughout the 1980s,
although it was partially offset by returns to the urban areas. One
upshot of suburbanisation is that daily travel between home and work
has lengthened considerably over the last thirty
years."
Correspondence: T. Le Jeannic, Institut
National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, Division
Statistiques et Etudes Régionales, 18 boulevard Adolphe Pinard,
75675 Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:40061 Leclerc, Eric. Roots of
urbanisation: the new small towns of Andhra Pradesh. [Aux racines
de l'urbanisation: les nouvelles petites villes d'Andhra Pradesh.]
Espace, Populations, Sociétés, No. 2-3, 1997. 241-52 pp.
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"The
urban crisis focuses much of the attention of researchers and planners
on cities; they consider by reference to census data that small towns
are decreasing. The results of our study in coastal Andhra Pradesh
[India] reveal the growing importance of small towns, in sharp contrast
with these [studies]." Although these new towns have no official
status as towns, they are able to control their own hinterland and
encourage an inward flow of entrants to their labor
forces.
Correspondence: E. Leclerc, Université de
Rouen, Département de Géographie, LEDRA-upresa 6 063,
B.P. 108, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40062 Montaño García,
Jaime. The urbanization process in Bolivia:
1976-1992. [El proceso de urbanización en Bolivia:
1976-1992.] Aug 1994. 66, [19] pp. Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano,
Unidad de Política de Población: La Paz, Bolivia. In Spa.
This report reviews urbanization at the global level and in Latin
America as a whole. Next, urbanization levels and trends in Bolivia are
described at the national and departmental levels. The spatial
distribution and dynamics of Bolivia's cities are then analyzed. A
final chapter summarizes conclusions and policy
implications.
Correspondence: Ministerio de Desarrollo
Humano, Unidad de Política de Población, La Paz, Bolivia.
Location: New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New
York, New York.
63:40063 Pérez Rodríguez,
Nancy. The city of Havana and its environment. [La
ciudad de La Habana y su medio ambiente.] Estudios Geográficos,
Vol. 57, No. 223, Apr-Jun 1996. 351-65 pp. Madrid, Spain. In Spa.
This is a general analysis of the Cuban capital city, Havana, and a
discussion of how the spatial distribution of its population has been
affected by the geography of the area. The factors affecting the
development of disadvantaged areas of the city with poor environments
are examined.
Location: Cornell University Library, Ithaca,
NY.
63:40064 Pongprayoon, Chatchai.
Human consequences of urbanization in Bangkok. In: Research
papers on interrelationship between population growth in developing
countries and global environment, Volume II. Mar 3, 1997. 55-66 pp.
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research: Tokyo,
Japan. In Eng.
"It is the purpose of this paper to present a
brief description of Thai urbanization and some of its significant
consequences on human, social, economic and environmental conditions in
the Bangkok Metropolis (BM). Some recommendations for further
amelioration of the situation will be given along the conceptual
framework proposed by [a]
UNESCO...program...."
Correspondence: C. Pongprayoon,
Chulalongkorn University, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts,
Phyathai Road, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:40065 Power, John; Shuttleworth,
Ian. Intercensal population change in the Belfast urban
area 1971-91: the correlates of population increase and decrease in a
divided society. International Journal of Population Geography,
Vol. 3, No. 2, Jun 1997. 91-108 pp. Chichester, England. In Eng.
"This paper analyses population change in the Belfast Urban
Area (BUA) [of Northern Ireland] between 1971 and 1991 in its
socio-economic context to understand the nature of urban social change.
Although considering religious factors as a cause of population change,
the research compares the BUA with other urban areas and relates
developments in Belfast to some literature on sociospatial polarisation
and the `underclass'....The results suggest that population change is
not driven by explicitly religious factors, the relationship between
religion and socio-economic well-being has changed, and that changes in
religious mixing and segregation occur in many contexts. The BUA is
like other urban areas, albeit with unique features arising from the
influence of religion."
Correspondence: I.
Shuttleworth, Queens University of Belfast, School of Geosciences,
Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:40066 Runge, Jerzy.
Demographic and social changes in the Katowice voivodship.
[Zmiany demograficzno-spoleczne woj. katowickiego.] Wiadomosci
Statystyczne, No. 7, 1997. 69-80 pp. Warsaw, Poland. In Pol. with sum.
in Eng; Rus.
"Since [the] late nineteen-eighties, two
important trends in demographic and social urbanisation have been
visible. The first is diminution of [the] influence of demographic
influences which originate outside the voivodship, the second is a
stabilisation (regress in some cases) of some urban centres. The latter
is due to a nation-wide demographic transformation as well as to a
growth in emigration from traditional urban centres of Katowice
conurbation....[The] latest [official] surveys indicate that the named
trends are characteristic for a majority of Polish cities over 100,000
since 1990."
Correspondence: J. Runge, Uniwersytet
Slaski, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40067 Shumsky, Neil L.
Urbanization and the growth of cities. Science, Vol. 1, ISBN
0-8153-2186-4. LC 95-38493. 1996. xvi, 518 pp. Garland Publishing: New
York, New York/London, England. In Eng.
This is the first in a
series of eight volumes bringing together more than 200 previously
published articles on the history and development of urban life in the
United States over the past two centuries. "Urbanization and many
of its attendant processes are analyzed in the first volume, which
considers not only the growth of cities but also such topics as the
relationship between urbanization and the Westward movement, boosterism
and urban rivalry, and company towns, concluding with a consideration
of suburbs and their place in American urban culture since the middle
of the nineteenth century."
Correspondence: Garland
Publishing, 717 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2500, New York, NY 10022.
Location: Princeton University Library (UES).
63:40068 Stewart, Dona J. African
urbanization: dependent linkages in a global economy. Tijdschrift
voor Economische en Sociale Geografie/Journal of Economic and Social
Geography, Vol. 88, No. 3, 1997. 251-61 pp. Utrecht, Netherlands. In
Eng.
"The colonial experience drastically altered the
indigenous urban system in Africa, replacing it with a European-driven
urban system designed to facilitate the extraction of resources. The
urban system and the nature of ties with the colonial power allowed
African integration into the world economy only in a dependent fashion.
These dependent ties were deepened as the world economy became more
globalized in the post-colonial period. The continent rapidly
urbanized, with much of the population concentrating in primate cities.
This urbanization was not accompanied by economic growth; as a result
Africa will soon become a continent of large cities--with urban
population they cannot physically and economically
support."
Correspondence: D. J. Stewart, Georgia State
University, Department of Geography, University Plaza, 140 Decatur
Street, Atlanta, GA 30303. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:40069 Vaguet, Odette. Indian
city, Hindu city? Factors and processes of spatial segregation.
[Ville indienne, ville hindoue? Facteurs et processus de
ségrégation spatiale.] Espace, Populations,
Sociétés, No. 2-3, 1997. 211-23 pp. Villeneuve d'Ascq,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"Indian cities express both
the invariants of universal urbanity and Hindu cultural specificity. In
India, as in any third World city, urban socio-spatial organization
shows disparities, and socio-economic criteria seem to abolish
traditional determinants. Nevertheless,...caste, prohibited in the
country since 1950, has still got a role in cities' spatial pattern
even though new areas are less caste homogeneous. Specific examples
will point out the combination of cultural traditions and economic
dynamics."
Correspondence: O. Vaguet,
Université de Rouen, Département de Géographie,
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:40070 Wang, Jinmin; Hu, Qi; Zhang,
Shuigen. Research on several issues of rural population in
the process of urbanization in the suburbs of Shanghai. In:
Research papers on interrelationship between population growth in
developing countries and global environment, Volume II. Mar 3, 1997.
255-72 pp. National Institute of Population and Social Security
Research: Tokyo, Japan. In Eng.
The authors discuss the
acceleration of urbanization in rural areas in Shanghai, China. Major
population problems occurring as a result of urbanization are
described, and possible policy measures are
suggested.
Correspondence: J. Wang, Shanghai Demography
Society, Shanghai, China. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:40071 Zhai, Zhenwu.
Urbanization and the aging of urban population in China: trend and
countermeasures. Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 9,
No. 1, 1997. 35-44 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"From a
historical point of view, this paper analyzes the relationship between
urbanization and changes in the population's age structure in
China....The analysis focuses on the impact of upcoming changes in the
urban population age structure--as represented by those in Beijing,
Tianjin, and Shanghai--on the development of urban economy. In choosing
a countermeasure for population aging in urban areas, the author
proposed a new strategy to integrate urban development with rural
development, to balance the development by cutting the peak to fill the
valley, and to obtain time by sacrificing
space."
Correspondence: Z. Zhai, Chinese People's
University, Institute of Demographic Studies, Beijing, China.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:40072 Zhou, Shuangchao; Xiao,
Zili. The unique process of urbanization in China and its
impacts. In: Research papers on interrelationship between
population growth in developing countries and global environment,
Volume II. Mar 3, 1997. 203-15 pp. National Institute of Population and
Social Security Research: Tokyo, Japan. In Eng.
The authors review
recent trends in urbanization in China. The impact on factors such as
the labor force, agriculture, rural development, social conditions,
crime, and migration is discussed. Possible means of reducing the
development gap between rural and urban areas are
suggested.
Correspondence: S. Zhou, China Population
Information and Research Center, P.O. Box 2444, Beijing 100081, China.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Studies of agricultural and farming populations.
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