Urban Population Loss in Historical Perspective: United States, 1820–2000

Robert A Beauregard
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Robert A Beauregard: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Avery Hall MC 0343, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

Environment and Planning A, 2009, vol. 41, issue 3, 514-528

Abstract: Employing an historical perspective, the author mounts a quantitative and theoretical assessment of population loss in the large cities of the United States. Three periods are considered: one prior to 1920 when large city population loss was aberrant; a second which captures the severe decline of the decades after World War II, and a third that encompasses the more recent shrinkage of cities. Population loss is measured in terms of prevalence, severity, and persistence and is also analyzed geographically. The author further identifies factors affecting population loss which are common and unique to each period. Although population loss has diminished, a number of cities are locked into trajectories of chronic loss, suggesting that a new phase of urbanization has yet to materialize.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1068/a40139a

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