Metropolitics

Miscounting Americans Correctly: Post-Truth as a Guide to Race and the US Census

Gregory Smithsimon — 2018-06-12T15:11:04Z

Paul Schor's book Counting Americans demonstrates that, in the hands of the US Census Bureau, the concept of race has consistently been both tenacious and malleable. In this review, Greg Smithsimon explores the census as the “hidden abattoir” of a deeply racialized American society, a renderer of categories that, while seeming clear and self-evident in daylight, are the contingent product of brutality.
As the best available portrait of an increasingly diverse and multiracial country, the US

- Reviews / United States, history, race, population, demographics, census, data, ethnic identity, US Census Bureau, racial classification

The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany

Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann — 2018-04-25T05:10:00Z

In Germany, the territorial and environmental impacts of climate change intersect in key ways with the nation's varied demography. In this pair of papers, researchers at TU Dortmund University urge spatial planners to synchronize their approaches to climate and demographic shifts at the city and regional levels.
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A nationwide analysis by Dennis Becker and Stefan Greiving shows that population is growing in regions that are experiencing warming,

- From the Field / urban planning, Germany, resilience, climate change, sustainable urban planning, population, demographics, demography, capacity building, social change, demographic change, spatial planning, adaptation, adaptive capacity

Overcoming Climate Impacts Through Adaptive Capacity Building: Two Extreme Cases from Germany

Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann — 2018-04-25T05:05:00Z

Climate change and demographic change interact. Impacts of climate change do not solely result from climate variability. Diverse settlement structures and a dynamic population development lead to heterogeneous, small-scale sensitivities in the face of climate variability and extreme events.
---- Series: Climate Change and Social Change Who is sensitive to these changes, at what time, and in which locations become central questions of spatial planning, with a view to fostering sustainable

Climate and Demographic Change: The Need for an Integrative Approach to Spatial Planning in Germany

Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving — 2018-04-25T05:00:00Z

Climate change and demographic change are two megatrends that are often discussed without regard for their complex interactions. A nationwide analysis in Germany shows that population is growing in regions that are experiencing warming, while populations are declining in regions that are becoming more arid and thus more subject to water shortages. In both types of regions, the population is aging. Demographic changes can have different impacts on climate change and vice versa.
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Looking Forward to 2020 While Looking Back: A Brief History of the US Census

Frank Donnelly — 2018-02-27T06:00:00Z

As preparations for the 2020 census are under way in the United States, Frank Donnelly looks back at how the census evolved from a basic head count to a sophisticated operation. The reapportionment of seats in Congress, the distribution of $600 billion in annual federal aid, and a countless number of derivative data sets all depend on the accuracy of the decennial census.
In 1790, the recently established United States became the first nation to conduct a population census designed

- Essays / United States, history, race, population, demographics, census, data, US Census Bureau

Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline

2017-10-04T05:00:00Z

In France, different shrinking cities have followed different trajectories. They nevertheless all have certain characteristics in common: specific types of ageing population, labour market and gender distribution that increasingly set them apart from growing cities, and could exacerbate their demographic decline in the medium term.
---- Series: Shrinking Cities Population decline currently concerns over a third of functional urban areas (FUAs) in mainland France and Corsica: using the zoning

- From the Field / France, deindustrialization, migration, population, shrinking cities, urban decline, urban shrinkage, degrowth, shrinkage, demographics, demography, fertility