Fuguitt G V, Beale C L
Demography. 1978 Nov;15(4):605-20.
This is a comparison of the 1950-1970 trends in population size of U.S. nonmetropolitan cities and villages among 26 homogeneous subregions. There are wide variations in the proportion of the nonmetropolitan population in incorporated places, and, though this proportion generally increased over the 1950-1970 period, decentralizing tendencies also are evident. There was most often a decline in the differential between the growth rate of incorporated places and of open country over the two decades. The positive association between initial size of place and growth, present in half of the subregions in the 1950s and indicative of population centralization, was found only in the Corn Belt, Great Plains, and Rocky Mountain subregions in the 1960s. There were regionally distinctive differences in all variables considered; most notably, the percent of places growing ranged 50 percentage points over the 26 subregions. The extent of subregional variation revealed by this analysis indicates how differences in physiography, climate, history, and economy continue to be reflected in settlement trends which are obscured when larger regional groupings are used.
这是对美国26个同类次区域中1950 - 1970年非都市化城市和村庄人口规模趋势的比较。在已建制地区，非都市化人口的比例存在很大差异，并且，尽管这一比例在1950 - 1970年期间总体上有所增加，但分散化趋势也很明显。在这二十年中，已建制地区与乡村地区的增长率差异大多出现了下降。20世纪50年代，地方初始规模与增长之间的正相关关系在一半的次区域中存在，这表明了人口集中化，而在20世纪60年代，这种关系仅在玉米带、大平原和落基山脉次区域中被发现。在所考虑的所有变量上都存在区域特色差异；最显著的是，在26个次区域中，增长地区的百分比范围相差50个百分点。该分析揭示的次区域差异程度表明，地形、气候、历史和经济的差异如何继续反映在定居趋势中，而当使用更大的区域分组时，这些差异就会被掩盖。
