Social / Demographics

Unusual Findings from Census 2010

Laurent Belsie takes a first look at some unexpected results from Tuesday's data release.

December 24, 2010 - The Christian Science Monitor

Mapping Demographic Change in the West

High Country News offers a look at the Western U.S., based on recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, using a mapping tool from The New York Times.

December 24, 2010 - High Country News

Israel's Urban Outlier

Capitalism and bourgeois values built the city of Tel Aviv, which stands today as an outlier in Israel, according to this article.

December 22, 2010 - City Journal

A Decade of Population Shifts in the U.S.

The first piece of data from the 2010 U.S. Census has been released, showing state-by-state population information. The Urbanophile offers three maps that document how the country has changed since the last Census in 2000.

December 22, 2010 - The Urbanophile

Shrinking Cities Means Shuttered Churches

The Archdiocese of Detroit is working with city planners and local demographers as they develop their plans for Catholic parish closures.

December 22, 2010 - The Detroit News

For Women Only: Safety by Segregation

Women's safety on public transit is increasingly in focus worldwide. Many systems have turned to designating separate areas for women, but what happens after they get off?

December 21, 2010 - TheCityFix

New Census Figures Put U.S. Population at 308,745,538

NPR reports how it will affect the electoral college, noting those that will gain House seats (south and west; mostly red) and the losers (north and mid-west; LA the exception; mostly blue). The Times reports on the importance of minorities.

December 21, 2010 - National Public Radio

The Walkable City of Death

San Francisco, one of the nation's most walkable cities, has one of the country's highest rates of pedestrian deaths.

December 21, 2010 - San Francisco Chronicle

Neighborhood Integration Improves, But Segregation Continues

While integration of African-Americans is improving, while Hispanics are still are increasingly living in their own neighborhoods according to new Census data.

December 20, 2010 - The Monterey County Herald

Physicist Tackles Urban Theory

Physicist Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute applied his talents to unraveling urban issues like population growth in a similar vein that he did earlier with biology. He found answers that explain how all cities work if enough data is supplied.

December 20, 2010 - The New York Times - Magazine

The Spatial Divide of Income Levels

Writing for Next American City, Yonah Freemark reviews recently released Census data to find increasing income levels in inner cities, and a growing spatial divide between poorer populations.

December 20, 2010 - Next American City

Rural America Gets Even Sparser

Populations have declined in the majority of rural areas in the U.S., according to recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.

December 19, 2010 - Los Angeles Times

Protesters Blast Wisconsin's Refusal of Rail Money

Protesters in Wisconsin are trying to reverse governor-elect Scott Walker's opposition to stimulus-funding for high speed rail projects -- $810 million that the government would have paid the state.

December 16, 2010 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Nation's Best and Worst Commutes, By Cost

TheStreet and Bundle have ranked the best and worst commutes in 90 American cities, based on costs and time.

December 15, 2010 - Bundle

Immigrants' First Stop: Suburbia

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that new immigrants have been heading to small towns and suburban areas rather than big cities over the past decade.

December 15, 2010 - The New York Times

Where are the Black Urbanists?

Urbanism tends to be an interest of a small group: the young, the male, and the pale, according to Kristen E. Jeffers who wants to see more groups and more people of color engaged.

December 15, 2010 - Grist

Moving Towards a Melting Pot

According to data from the most recent Census, segregation along racial lines has hit an 100-year low in seventy-five percent of U.S. metropolitan areas. Southern and Western cities have showed the most noticeable integration trends.

December 15, 2010 - The Christian Science Monitor

Preserving Culture, But Moving From Home as the Permafrost Melts

The village of Newtok, Alaska is subsiding into a nearby river as the permafrost beneath it melts. Villagers want to preserve their heritage, but face moving from their homeland.

December 13, 2010 - Orion

Susan Straight's New Novel Depicts A Vision of LA Rarely Explored

Susan Straight's new novel draws on her experiences of growing downtown LA and its surroundings to create an image of a neighborhood 'reeking of cheap liquor and hurt.'

December 12, 2010 - Los Angeles Times

The Impact of 'Top Cities' Lists

Countless publications have released listings of the "Top Cities" in a wide range of topics. They definitely get attention, but do they make a difference?

December 12, 2010 - Next American City

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