Extractions: *This list of cities may not be complete If you have information about any of these unlinked communities, please send it to us and we will add a page for that community. Return to top Nearby Counties to Wayne County are: Duplin, Sampson, Johnston, Wilson, Greene and Lenoir Counties Location: The county is located in the east-central part of the state in the coastal plain region. The county measures approximately 29 miles from north to south and 14-27 miles from east to west and has 553.97 square miles. History: Wayne County history page Established on 2 November 1779, this county was named for a trusted soldier and friend of General George Washington, General Anthony Wayne. His nickname was "Mad Anthony Wayne." The county area was taken from Dobbs County. The current courthouse was built in 1914 Population: Government: of the municipalities in the county Goldsboro is a city, Eureka, Fremont, Mount Olive, Pikeville and Seven Springs are towns and Walnut Creek is a village.
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Extractions: and Walter C. Farrell, Jr. Note: This file contains the text of an article which appeared in Popular Government, Please e-mail, phone, or fax Katrina Hunt at the numbers below for assistance and information about purchasing specific articles. Johnson is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management and Sociology, Johnson-Webb is a doctoral candidate in geography, and Farrell is a professor of social work and public health. All are at UNC-CH. Historically, whites, blacks, and Native Americans have constituted a numerical majority of the population of North Carolina and the South generally. In recent years, however, population growth driven by immigration has dramatically transformed the racial and ethnic composition of the state and the region. Over the past two decades, newcomers to the state and the region have included substantial numbers of people who either were born in, or are offspring or descendants of people who were born in, Mexico, another Latin American country, or Southeast Asia. Between the two demographic groups represented by the newcomers, Hispanics constitute the larger and therefore the more visible one. In this article we provide a general overview of the size and the composition of North Carolinas Hispanic newcomers, describe their settlement patterns, and assess the response of other North Carolinians to the influx. We conclude by discussing several issues that must be addressed if the state is to avoid some of the tensions and the conflicts that have accompanied the settlement of Hispanics in communities like Los Angeles that have traditionally been gateways for immigrants.
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Extractions: A visionary new book by New York Times columnist Joel Kotkin is making the rounds these days in Honolulu and his views on the New Economy are well worth evaluating. More specifically, Kotkin's reflections on how the digital revolution is reshaping the American landscape may well provide those who make policy in Hawaii with clues as to how we might plan our future as a digital island and home to Information Age workers. Conventional wisdom has it that with the rise of a digital economy, people can choose to live wherever they want and physical geography matters less and less. For example, the advent of the Internet, cell phones and other technologies make it possible for individuals to move away from large cities. People are free to live and or even telecommute if they so choose. While on the surface this appears to be the case, Kotkin posits that geography still plays the ultimate role when it comes to influencing where people live and work. Certainly citizens are freer to live where they want to but in his words, ""The importance of geography is not dwindling to nothing in the digital era; in fact, quite the opposite. In reality, placegeographymatters now more than ever before," he tells us. Cities, he explains, may no longer be the industrial or corporate centers they once were earlier in the last century. Nowadays they are becoming magnets for talented workers whose intellectual capital and high tech skills are more important than "office drones" or cheap, unskilled labor. He argues that this type of pooling of primarily highly skilled talent is more akin to a dynamic that existed in pre-industrial cities.
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Extractions: A fledgling program of instruction in urban and regional planning at East Carolina College has taken hold and is attracting wide interest from those who want more emphasis on training professionals to fill various planning jobs. The program has been added to the course of study offered in the department of geography. The eight geography majors now working through the planning curriculum will, upon successful completion of the course, be ready for jobs as planners for cities, counties, states, the federal government, industries or independent planning firms. According to the geography department's director, Dr. Robert E. Cramer, the planning program was added here as an answer to requests from many communities in the state for trained personnel in the specialized field of planning. Cramer explains the role of the planning curriculum at East Carolina like this: "Complex problems that need knowledge of planning are growing as the populations shifts from rural areas to the cities. Experience has taught urban specialists that planning for the future is imperative to avoid costly mistakes as the cities grow, and help undo the many mistakes already made.
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Extractions: Background/Problem Statement Emerging national and international research from the field of economic development is showing that communities that have the individual, institutional, and community-wide capacity to solve complex economic problems collaboratively do better economically (see Putnam, Flora, Grisham). Strong leadership capacity of individuals, institutions, and communities is basic, civic infrastructure as important as physical infrastructure for rural development. Few communities across America have a thriving civic infrastructure, and in North Carolina, rural communities facing economic hardship cannot afford not to develop such infrastructure. What capacities are missing? Too few communities have a diverse array of private, public, and nonprofit leaders (elected and community leaders) who: Understand the complex dynamics about each local economy; Understand the holistic nature of economic development and the range of interventions that are proven to make a difference; Know how to plan strategically for the future, in the midst of dynamic change;
Extractions: Introduction By contrast, this book draws together research on North Carolina women over centuries into a comprehensive narrative. As such, it goes against the trend in current historiography to take one segment of the past and illuminate a larger picture by thoroughly analyzing a microcosm. We have tried to see as much of the whole as possible because so much has been missing. Since we started this book almost a decade ago, new research and scholarly interpretations on women have been published and more are in the works, so that in the future the picture begun here will be redrawn in ever more detail and complexity, reinterpreted, revised, and expanded. From the beginning we relied on the work of many scholars. Our method was twofold. A great deal of research had already been done; it not only put in our hands the materials we needed, but also in citing our sources we would be able to recognize how early and how long researchers had worked. Then, as time and resources permitted, we could conduct our own research to fill in some of the missing pieces. Although we learned from many historians, we relied especially on the work of two scholars who published in the first half of the twentieth century and two who published in the second half. Guion Griffis Johnson's
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Extractions: Charles and Shirley Weiss, professors emeriti at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began an innovative program in 1992 designed to improve communities through interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of "urban livability." Their active involvement with the arts, education, and civic organizations, coupled with extensive world travel, convinced the Weisses that a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach is essential to improving the quality of life in contemporary communities. Believing that graduate students are an invaluable resource for the future, the Weisses created a Program that centers on the support and nurturing of graduate students. Focused on the importance of academic and community dialogue on current issues, the Program also includes two significant strategies for fostering communication: the Floyd B. McKissick Visiting Scholar, and the Urban Livability Symposium. Additionally, the Weisses' personal collection of books, monographs, articles, and memorabilia related to urban livability stimulates and enlightens the Fellows and others interested in making a difference in community life.
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Extractions: Think about the town you live in. Are there new neighborhoods, highways, and shopping centers where parks or farms used to be? Is there new construction in areas once considered "on the outskirts"? If so, then perhaps your area has succumbed to urban sprawl. What are some of the problems associated with urban sprawl? Take a look at Earthshots from the United States Geological Survey. These Landsat images from 1972 to the present show environmental change in areas around the world. Consider some of the major problems associated with this type of growth: Increased traffic congestion/air pollution: Each year, Americans spend 55 8-hour workdays behind the wheels of their cars. As urban areas spread out, more time is spent in cars, and traffic congestion occurs over a larger area. Adding new lanes to highways doesn't solve the problem.
Extractions: Guest Columnist, Travel Post, Travel Council of North Carolina Many of us deeply interested in fueling additional visitors to North Carolina can identify with the subtitle of a recent book, What Happens After What Comes Next. The book, entitled The 500 Year Delta illustrates just how much of the future can be projected through a good understanding of the past. Maybe the same is true as some wonder about the future of visitor-related organizations in the State. Tourism, or what is now called visitor-related economic development, first took hold in the United States in the s with the romanticization of the New England region for travelers seeking a break from the hectic cities of the time. By 1828, there were even satirical versions, and the market had broadened from the wealthy to the middle class. By the 1830s, the first cruises had evolvedfirst with rivers, then seas and oceans. In fact, the classic Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana chronicled travels up and down the west coast in the mid-1830s.
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Extractions: 2000 Census figures show the Lao ethnic origin population shifted away from California and to parts of the Midwest, South, and the Pacific Northwest between 1990 and 2000. The enumerated Lao population grew from 147,375 to 168,707 in the 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2000 a 12.6% increase. It should be noted that the census numbers are widely considered by Lao community leaders to be an undercount of the actual population. While California continued to possess by far the largest Lao population of any state in 2000 (55,456), the number of Lao enumerated in the state actually decreased by more than 5,000 over the decade. In 2000, the second largest Lao population was counted in Texas (10,114). The next most sizable Lao communities were tallied in Minnesota (9,940), Washington state (7,974) and North Carolina (5,313). Among the nations regions, the most significant gains in Lao population occurred in parts of the Upper Midwest (Minnesota and Wisconsin), the South (North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee) as well as the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon). It is very likely that the regional shift away from California to these states represents a form of secondary migration among many persons of Lao origin. Among metropolitan areas, 5 of the 10 cities with the largest Lao populations in the U.S. were located in California. Out of the top 5 cities for Lao residents, Minneapolis-St. Paul was in fact the only metro area not situated in California. In the rank-hierarchy of Midwestern cities with substantial Lao communities, the Twin Cities were followed by Chicago, Milwaukee-Racine, Des Moines, IA and Grand Rapids, MI.
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Extractions: census population estimates ... text menu In addition to the Nation, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, PEP produces estimates for census regions and divisions, counties and equivalents, incorporated places, minor civil divisions, consolidated cities, and metropolitan areas. Legally defined county subdivisions are referred to as minor civil divisions (MCDs.) MCDs are the primary divisions of a county. They comprise both governmentally functioning entities that is, those with elected officials who provide services and raise revenues and nonfunctioning entities that exist primarily for administrative purposes, such as election districts. Twenty-eight states and Puerto Rico have MCDs. However, the MCDs function as general purpose governmental units in all or part of only twenty states. Within these twenty states, PEP produces estimates for all governmentally functioning MCDs and for nonfunctioning MCDs in counties that contain at least one functioning MCD. The legal powers and functions of MCDs vary from state to state. Most of the MCDs in twelve states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin) serve as general-purpose local governments. In the remaining eight states for which PEP produces MCD level estimates (Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Dakota) the MCDs, for the most part, perform less of a governmental role and are less well known locally, even though they are active governmental units.
Extractions: Related Sites A B C D ... Z - A - Acs, Zoltan J. [Baltimore, Entrepreneurship, Small Business] Alonso, William (1933-1999) Alonso's Bid Rent Functions Momorial William Alonso, Richard Saltonstall professor of population policy, died on February 11, 1999. International Regional science Review, 24(3), July 2001, Special Issue in Memory of William Alonso Harvard University Gazette (Memorial Feb.1999) Born in Buenos Aires, Alonso began his career with a bachelor's degree in architectural science from Harvard in 1954. He also received a master's degree in city planning from Harvard in 1956 and a doctorate in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960.... William Alonso, IV. CITIES, REGIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES
