by d3wpadmin | Mar 14, 2013 | Census, Kurt Metzger, MIchigan, Population Density, U.S. Census Bureau
The Census Bureau has released its latest population estimates for 2012 today. The estimates cover metropolitan statistical areas, micropolitan statistical areas and counties. The numbers show that the Great Plains and West Texas contained many of the...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 24, 2012 | Population Density
The Urbanophile has an interesting piece by urban planner and Detroit native Pete Saunders on poor urban planning’s contribution to the decline of Detroit. He offers nine patterns related to planning and land use that exacerbated the social, economic, and...
by d3wpadmin | Dec 14, 2011 | Population Density, rob linn
In all of the coverage and analysis surrounding the release of the 2010 Census results, another significant landmark passed by seemingly unnoticed. Between 2000 and 2010, the center of the metropolitan population moved 3,842 feet to the northwest, to the intersection...
by d3wpadmin | Nov 18, 2011 | Kevin Chapo, Population Density
If every member of the United States lived in an area with the population density of Brooklyn, NY (35,000 per sq mi) we all could fit into New Hampshire, the 5th smallest state. At 982 acres (1.534 sq mi), Belle Isle Park is the largest city island park in the United...
