Tag: population
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Growth Of The Nation And Growth Of New York City
The New York Times recently put together an impressive interactive map that lets you explore the data from a national census taken from 2005-2009. No doubt they will do something similar with the data from the 2010 census which has just been released. For the census of 1910, nobody had Flash installed in their web…
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Where New York’s Population Is Growing Most Rapidly
It’s interesting to see where the city’s population was moving to and from 100 years ago. If you download the pdf, be sure to check out page two, which compares the “to-day” skyline of 1910 with the city skyline as it looked in 1816. For a modern look at Manhattanites’ urban migration, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer…
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One Family Homes To Solve New York’s Congestion
The article begins with the proclamation that “a prominent engineer and statistician recently estimated that by the year 1950 New York City’s population would exceed 19,000,000!” It goes on to explain that businesses will displace residences in Manhattan, which will see a population decrease, but Queens and Brooklyn will blow up to 6,000,000 and 7,000,000…
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