Metropolitan Population: Prospect And Change, 1960-1980

Fellmann, Jerome D.

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Title

Metropolitan Population: Prospect And Change, 1960-1980

Author(s)

Fellmann, Jerome D.

Issue Date

1965

Keyword(s)

Libraries and metropolitan areas

Abstract

"I have been asked to discuss some aspects of the changing character of the metropolitan population as projected to 1980. This is a tough assignment, and for reasons that I will detail later I am going to try to avoid it at all costs. Perhaps we can begin to see the dimensions of the problem of metropolitan population characteristics in 1980 by looking at the national context. We are much confronted with references to a ""population explosion"" both in the United States and, of course, in the world at large. I suggest that through the nearly two hundred years of this country's history a similar pattern of explosive growth could be noted. At our first census in 1790, we registered about four million inhabitants; for 1980 fifteen years hence we will probably have a population of about 244 million persons. In all but two decades of the history of this country, each decennial increase in population has exceeded the increase registered in the previous ten years. For this country, explosive growth is not new. Looking at the present situation and glancing ahead, for the nation as a whole the first half of the 1960's showed a smaller increase than the last half of the 1950's. But in the 1970's, population growth is expected to reach levels which exceed any that we have so far experienced. Between 1970 and 1975 we will probably add some 17 million persons; between 1975 and 1980 we will grow by an additional 19 million persons."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (12th : 1965)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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