As Population Grows, So Do Urban Areas

As Population Grows, So Do Urban Areas: "Over 300 million Americans have to live somewhere. And, of course, we do. Nearly 80 percent of the growing U.S. population resides in urban areas while the land area dedicated to urban use continues to expand. A new USGS publication - Rate, Trends, Causes, and Consequences of Urban Land-Use Change in the United States (Professional Paper 1726) - studies the change in land use associated with increasing urbanization and its impacts at local, regional, and national scales."