Amelia Rodriguez 11/8/09 human geography
Population and Settlement.
More than 335 million people live in North America today; they are some of the world’s most affluent and highly mobile populations. Metropolitan clusters dominate North America’s population geography, producing strikingly uneven patterns of settlement across the region. This theme applies to North America because every day we have more and more immigrants migrated to our country and settling here. Mostly all immigrants migrate and settle in North America then they do in other countries. North America’s population has increased greatly since the beginning of European colonization. Before the 1900s high rates of natural increase produced large families. Waves of foreign immigration swelled settlement, a pattern that continues today. After World War 11 birthrates rose once again in the United States.
Rates of natural increase in North America are below 1 percent annually, and the overall population is growing older. North America’s settlement landscape reflects the population movements, moving regional economic fortunes. Settlement landscapes of North American cities boldly display the consequences of urban decentralization. Rural North American landscapes trace their origins to initial European settlement. Today, many rural North American settings face population declines as they adjust to the changing conditions of modern agriculture. United States farm populations fell by more than two-thirds during the last half of the twentieth century.
All of this work is cited from “Diversity Amid Globalization” textbook.
