...populate any other American city except Chicago and Philadelphia.2 In Chicago, for 1 In 1910, 46.3 per cent of the people of the United States lived in cities and other incorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more, including New England towns of that size....

...each succeeding census a larger and larger proportion of our population has become urban. In 1910, 46 per cent of the people of the United States lived in cities, and in 1915 the Census Bureau estimated that the urban population had increased to 52 per cent. With...

.... . «*«. have created other problems. When the Constitution went into effect in 1789 only about 3 per cent of the people of the United States lived in cities of 2,500 and upward; now not far from 50 per cent live in cities. In the largest ones, such as New...

...And the 1960 census shows it is shifting. In 1790, when the first national census was taken, only 5 per cent of the people of the United States lived in cities. It was 20 per cent in 1860, and 32 per cent in 1900. Today, better than 60 per cent are city-dwellers....