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PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER
Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 504-517Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00242
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densification; population density; population growth; megalopolis
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Changing population density is often ignored in studies of population growth and population transfer in the United States. We show that there is a complex relationship between patterns of population growth and density increase by state. The largest gains in density are in the stares of the northeastern megalopolis, California, and Florida. Analysis of the 150 counties with the greatest increases in density between 1980 and 1990 shows that they are well distributed across the United States including the larger metropolitan areas of the Rustbelt. In general, the most densely populated states and places are becoming more densely populated, a concept we refer to as densification.
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