Urbanisation patterns in the United States have taken some unlikely turns over the past
quarter of a century.) fter following fairly predictable trends in the 1950s and 1960s towards …

United States changed apace during the 1970s. On an interregional scale, we witnessed the
continuing redistribution of population and economic activity away from the traditional …

Residential construction is proposed as the mechanism whereby city-wide population
growth is translated into population redistribution from mature to relatively undeveloped …

America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined
sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades. How much of this …

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular,
for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked …

Since the 1970s American cities, particularly those in the Northeast and Midwest, have
striven to address the opportunities and challenges of the transition from an industrial to a …

This article undertakes a formalised speculation about the ways in which patterns of urban
development in the US may exacerbate or relieve the manifold problems of the declining …

A major demographic surprise emerged in the United States (and many other highly
developed countries) in the 1970s, when the nonmetropolitan population was observed to …

This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and
suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their …

The reversal of relative growth rates of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties in the
United States from 1970–1975 has implica-tions for theories of urbanization as well as for …