Reports, Articles
& Organizations
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Reports:
Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy, City
Growth and the 2000 Census: Which Places Grew, and Why (May
2001.) The growth of cities in the 1990s has generated headlines lately,
but what factors contributed to population growth? Why have some
cities gained while others lost? A variety of attributes that a particular
city might have had in 1990 can explain whether it grew or shrunk over
the decade. Some of these attributes are susceptible to policy fixes, while
others are not. This survey, uses 2000 Census data to examine and explain
the patterns that describe which cities grew in the last decade and which
did not.
Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy, The
Implications of Changing U.S. Demographics for Housing Choice and Location
in U.S. Cities (March
2001.)
Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy, Racial
Segregation in the 2000 Census: Promising News (April 2001.)
Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy, Racial
Change in the Nation's Largest Cities: Evidence from the 2000 Census (May
2001.)
Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy, Downtown
Rebound (Rebecca R. Sohmer and Robert E. Lang. May 2001.)
Cox, Wendell, Demographic Briefs: U.S. Urbanized
Population and Density Trends: 1950-1990, (Belleville, IL: Wendell
Cox Consultancy, 1996.)
Cox, Wendell. Demographic Briefs: U.S Urbanized
Area Population and Procedures in Effect Since July 1, 1970. University
of Toledo, for the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway
Administration, 1973.
Economic and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census
Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce. Geophysical Mobility:
March 1995 to March 1996. December, 1997.
Environmental
Law and Policy Center of the Midwest. Portrait of Sprawl: Northeastern
Illinois Population Change. Chicago, IL: Environmental Law and
Policy Center of the Midwest.
Fannie
Mae Foundation. The
Urban Turnaround: A Decade-by-Decade Report Card on Postwar Population
Change in Older Industrial Cities, Fannie Mae Foundation: Washington
D.C., April 2001.
Frey, William and Elaine Fielding. Changing
Urban Populations, Regional Restructuring, Racial Polarization, and Poverty
Concentration. Population Studies Center, Ann Arbor, MI: University
of Michigan Press, February 1994.
Sierra Club. Stop
Sprawl: New Research on Population, Suburban Sprawl and Smart Growth,
Washington,
DC: Sierra Club, March 2001.
Articles:
"Population Increase Highest in Western States,"The
Washington Post, January 1, 1998, p. A14.
"South, West U.S. Had Fastest Population
Rise in 1998,"
Bloomberg News, March 12, 1999.
"Americans trade urban bustle for rural life,"
Christian Science Monitor, April 4, 2001.
"West's growth still tops, census finds," Denver
Post, April 3, 2001.
"Cities still losing whites, wealth," Christian
Science Monitor, April 17, 2001.
"In Southwest, more whites find big-city life
appealing," Christian Science
Monitor, April 17, 2001.
"Columbus Blazes a Trail for '21st Century Cities',"
Los
Angeles Times. May 1, 2001.
"Bit by Bit, Tiny Morland, Kan., Fades Away,"
New York Times. May 10, 2001.
"Welcome to the 'Exit Ramp' Economy," Boston
Globe. May 13, 2001.
"Married-With-Children Still Fading," The
Washington Post. May 14, 2001.
Organizations:
Alternatives
to Growth Oregon
PO Box 80334
Portland, OR 97280-1334
Tel: 503-222-0282
National
Audubon Society
Population and Habitat Campaign
3109 28th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
Tel: 303-442-2600
Population
Action International
1120 19th Street, NW, Suite 550;
Washington, DC 20036 USA;
Tel: 202- 659-1833
Population
Institute
107 Second St., N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002
Tel: 800- 787-0038, 202-544-3300
U.S.
Bureau of the Census
Worldwatch
Institute
1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-1904
Tel: 202-452-1999
Zero
Population Growth
1400 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Suite 320
Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: 202-332-2200
Toll free 1-800-POP-1956