Decline of St. Louis as Midwest Metropolis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4043028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lewis F Thomas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1949 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 118 |
| Publication date | 1949-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/141215 |
| OpenAlex | W2319329118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Lakes steamboat arrived at Chicago. So great was the momentum of St. Louis prestige that it was not until 1880 that Chicago passed St. Louis in population. Since then, Chicago has been consistently increasing its lead. Today, Metropolitan Chicago has approximately 5,000,000 inhabitants and Metropolitan St. Louis has approximately 1,500,000 (Figures 1, 2, 3, 4). Early in the 1900's J. Paul Goode wrote a booklet to prove that Chicago was destined to be a great city because of a unique combination of superlative geologic and geographic features. His thesis indicates that the great contrast in population today is not result of simple competition between the qualities of two geographic areas but of contrasts in strategic location which have contributed to acceleration of
Art history · Economic history · Geography · Regional science · St louis · American Environmental and Regional History · History · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1959 - 2020 (62) |
| Highly cited | No |