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  title info:
    title: Rethinking the nonmetropolitan turnaround
    sub title: renewed rural growth or extended urbanization?
  name:
    name part: Wang, Xiaodong
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: McIntosh, William Alexander
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Murdock, Steve
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: This dissertation proposes a new, synthesized perspective for explaining the "Nonmetropolitan Turnaround" in the 1970s and 1990s. By studying the definition of urbanization carefully, using the human ecological perspective, many processes happening during the "Nonmetropolitan Trnaround" in the 1970s and 1990s, such assuburbanization, deconcentration, and counterurbanization, can be understood as different forms of the urbanization processes. When the majority of the population was rural, the dominant pattern of urbanization was rural-urban migration. When the majority of the population became urban, the dominant urbanization pattern reversed to urban rural migration because urban centers had reached beyond their optimal density and processes operated to reduce their density. This paper hypothesizes that the two "turnarounds" were simply the result of different aspects of urbanization complicated by metropolitan status reclassifications. The perspectives of suburbanization, counterurbanization and deconcentration are integrated into the urbanization perspective. Using migration flow data compiled by the Census Bureau from 1975 to 1980 and from 1995 to 2000, the summary analyses confirmed that the net migration due to the three forms of urbanization largely accounted for all of the net migrant flows. This dissertation further tested the validity of optimal density theory with net migration data and confirmed the utility of this perspective in predicting the direction of net migration.
  note: by Xiaodong Wang.
  note: "Major Subject: Sociology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Apr. 27, 2007.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2006.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation).
  subject:
    topic: Major Sociology
  subject:
    topic: turnaround
  subject:
    topic: urbanization
  subject:
    topic: optimal density
  subject:
    topic: migration
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4947
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 070608
    record change date: 20151105053137.0
    record identifier: in00002248639