Ridgley, D. C. “Sixty-eight Cities of the United States in 1920,” Jour. Geog., XX (February, 1921), 75–79.
One of a series of postcensus-report analyses of the growth of the urban population.
Roth, Lawrence V. “The Growth of American Cities,” Geog. Rev., V (May, 1918), 384–98.
Holds that the growth of the cities of the United States has passed through four periods, each of which in its turn was the response to the commercial and industrial development of a new geographical region. Distinguishes between site and situation in city growth, and is here concerned mainly with general situation as a contributory influence. (III, 2, 3, 4.)
Sedlaczek. “Die Bevölkerungszunahme der Grossstädte im XIX Jahrhundert und deren Ursachen,” Report of the Eighth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography (Budapest, 1894). (VII, 3; VIII, 1; X, 1.)
United States Bureau of the Census. A Century of Population Growth (Washington, 1909). (VII, 3; VIII; X, 2.)
United States Bureau of the Census. Population: Fourteenth Census of the United States (3 vols.; Washington, 1920). (VII, 3; VIII, 1, 2; IX, 1; X, 2.)
Van Cleef, E. “How Big Is Your Town?” American City, XVII (November, 1917), 471–73.
Weber, Adna Ferrin. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics, “Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law” (New York, 1899).
Besides being the most important book on the growth of the city from a statistical standpoint, it contains many other features of great value to the student of the city, especially of the influence of the urban environment on the population. (VII, 2, 3; VIII.)