ERIC Number: ED138406
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976-Oct
Pages: 29
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Rural Renaissance in America? The Revival of Population Growth in Remote Areas.
Morrison, Peter A.; Wheeler, Judith P.
Presenting narrative and tabular documentation of the revival of population growth in remote, rural areas and the decline of growth in urban areas, this bulletin describes the characteristics of these shifts, considers their possible causes, and suggests some of the problems and potential benefits. Specifically, this report presents the following: (1) New Stresses and Issues (describes the demands for services made upon rural areas by the migrating middle and upper classes); (2) Rural Urbanization (explains the way in which the migrants bring urbanization with them and essentially destroy that which they seemed to value); (3) Declining Metropolitan Population (the pattern of decline and an "invisible trend"); (4) Revival of Nonmetropolitan Growth (not just an urban sprawl, rather, a conscious choice for rurality); (5) Regional Patterns of Nonmetropolitan Growth; (6) Characteristics of Migrants to Nonmetropolitan Areas; (7) Why a Revival of Rural Population Growth? (a new form of urbanization, jobs no longer the sole attraction, new "growth industries" in rural areas, and "love thy neighbor--from a distance"); (8) Coping with New Growth and New Decline (coping with rural revival and ambivalence towards growth). The tabular data presented includes demographic statistics on population mobility, migration, and interchange covering the period between 1950-75. (JC)
Descriptors: Demography, Differences, Futures (of Society), Migrants, Population Growth, Population Trends, Problems, Regional Characteristics, Rural Areas, Social Change, Socioeconomic Influences, Tables (Data), Urban to Rural Migration, Urbanization
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Authoring Institution: Population Reference Bureau, Inc., Washington, DC.
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