Migration
Dynamic of the American City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2731363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sidney Goldstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 337 |
| Publication date | 1954-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3031369 |
| OpenAlex | W2322194429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
AMONG the outstanding results of the accelerated industrialization and urbanization which characterized the United States over the last century have been the changes in the structure of the American population. The lower birth and death rates and the consequences of the varying patterns of immigration to the United States are familiar to most students of American history. While births, deaths, and international migration have changed the size and composition of the American population as a whole, these factors in themselves do not explain the changing spatial distribution of our population in terms of urban-rural, regional, or subregional residence. These distributions are attributable not only to the different rates of birth and death in various parts of the United States, but also to the constant redistribution of our population through internal migration, the movement of persons from one geographical location to another within the boundaries of a given country. It was internal migration which in large measure accounted for the settlement and the continuing growth of the West; it is this same form of movement which was also responsible for the transition of the United States from a rural to an urban society as farmers left the soil to move into the cities and factories of an industrialized America; and today in the United States internal migration has caused the tremendous growth of the suburbs as persons leave the crowded urban centers for the less populated fringe areas. Although internal migration has been so important in changing the residential patterns of our population, not much data have been available in the past to enable the demographer to determine either the volume of this movement or the characteristics of the migrants. Thus
Geography · Political science · Sociology · History · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1957 - 1983 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |