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The article discusses an essay by Adna Ferrin Weber on urbanization in the U.S. Weber has compiled and analyzed statistics on urban concentration. He believes that urbanization is a global phenomenon. Webber's European statistics revealed that urbanization did not begin with the nineteenth century. Also, Webber has pointed at industrialization as the principal source of rapid urbanization. It is believed that new forms of industrial production could lead to the development of urban life. Also, there is a lingering notion suggesting that the 19th century urban revolution and the ensuing industrial revolution in the U.S. is international in nature, since a revolution of a similar kind also existed elsewhere and since U.S. industries and cities were linked with other economies.

The article presents historical information on land use in the U.S. It analysis how the U.S. changed from hunter-gathering to an industrial and a postindustrial tenure in 150 years. According to U.S. historian Frederic Jackson Turner, land ownership and the right to use the land as the owner saw fit, became the mainspring of frontier individualism and was crucial to the promotion of American democracy. The value of land as a commodity probably didn't become dominant until urbanization started to spill out over the land. The attitude had already emerged that land exploitation was an individual right, indeed the taproot of democracy.

Analysis of the literature on social problems points to an inescapable conclusion — the vast majority of social phenomena identified as "problematic" are themselves correlates, concomitants or consequences of urban-industrialism. A weaker corollary that emerges is that even the relatively ubiquitous problems — those found within societies at all levels of urbanization and industrialization and within both urban and rural sectors of the same society — assume a different shape and present themselves in more complicated form in the context of the city. Equally striking is the fact that the same conclusion is forced upon people whether they confine themselves to the domestic scene or take a broader comparative view, whether they examine only their own highly urbanized and industrialized society or extend their perspective to permit the consideration of societies only beginning to undergo these processes. The problems encountered in the U.S. urban setting have been relatively well explored and people are in a better position to see them as indigenous to the urban milieu. As a consequence, this article will be narrowly focused on the U.S.

If the Southeast of the U.S. is to be a desirable place to live in the postwar world it needs, among other things, a definite policy, both State and national, with respect to population. This report considers a population policy to be a definite course or method of procedure regarding population, especially with respect to numbers, distribution, and quality of stock. As such it concerns itself with those factors closely allied with population change in a democratic country, namely, family, individual initiative, urbanization, and industrialization. The Southeast as used here embraces the nine States east of the Mississippi river as far north as Virginia and Kentucky inclusive, however, since so much in this region is influenced by national conditions, it is impossible to consider a population policy for the Southeast without also taking into account national policy. Some of the important long time population problems needing consideration are the declining birth rates in urban centers, excess of births over deaths in the rural areas, especially the Southeast and out-migration of working age people from rural areas as a result of the above.

The article focuses on the effect of industrialization on population growth in the U.S. Immigration is also responsible for growth of population. Immigration is merely a substitution of one group in the population for some other group, rather than an addition to the total. If it is true, there has been no gain from immigration to offset the decreased rate of natural growth due to industrialization and urbanization. The decade 1900-1910 which is ordinarily thought of as having an unusually heavy immigration, stands but little higher than 1880-1890 or 1850-1860 in regard to the proportion of population foreign born, or amount of immigration relative to population. The population of the states more largely urban and receiving industrially attracted immigrants to a greater extent, should have grown more rapidly than that of the more rural states not receiving many of these immigrants. The extent to which immigration to the more industrial states has compensated for a rate of natural increase lower than that of the more agricultural states should be shown by comparing the number of people born locally plus the foreign born residents.

This article reports on the issue of desegregation and its influence on the social structure of South Carolina. For barring unforeseen catastrophes, which would deeply affect all of the U.S. and not just South Carolina, it is virtually seen that South Carolina will continue to become more urban, more industrial, and racially more desegregated. In the long run, urbanization and industrialization are likely to change the social structure of the South Carolina far more than desegregation. But it is desegregation, with its short run threats and promises, which is viewed as the fundamental distorter of the traditional way of life. South Carolina appears to react far more intensely and emotionally to this view of the short run events than to the long run effects of urbanization and industrialization. Some people of South Carolina view desegregation as undesirable and they are not prepared actively to impede this process. If the advantage of local habit and long-standing tradition lies with the segregationists, the advantage of general institutional pressure and dominant national trends lies with the group-seeking acceptance of desegregation.

Examines the role of industrialization and urbanization on the decline of fertility in Erie County in New York, New York. Correlations between fertility differentials and socio-economic variables; Identification of sequence linking land availability and declining fertility; Impact of the study on the land availability thesis.