Metropolitan Change in the Chesapeake Bay Region 

By David L. Phillips 
with Elizabeth Ward and Mike Fenner 
Urban and Environmental Planning , 
School of Architecture , 
University of Virginia 
 

for 

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation 
Christin Pauley, Project Director 
 
 


Research and mapping of demographic change helped the foundation explore the population growth pressures and demographic shifts taking place in the vicinity of the metroplitan areas within the Chesapeake Bay Area.  The intent was to explore the measured effects of sprawl, the importance of integrating land use and transportation planning for Bay protection, and the importance of "regionalism" in addressing interlocking social, environmental and economic problems of the Bay Area.

The project constructed a series  detailed maps for each of four metropolitan areas in the Chesapeake Bay Area at the census tract level.   There were a total of 120 maps produced.

Map subjects included:
    Population Size and change 1980 to 1990
    Distribution of Housing by decade constructed
    Income Distribution (Median family income) ( 1980 and 1990)
    Percent of Families below the Poverty Level
    Transportation Performance:
        Percent of Work Trips exceeding 30 minutes
        Percent of Work Trips Driving Alone
        Percent of Work Trips using Public Transportation

Population Change over the entire Bay region was conducted at the County Level.
    Population Density
    Urban Rural Shifts

Period of work:  Summer and Fall of 1995;  Fall of 1997.
 


 Maintained by dlp@Virginia.edu
Last Modified: July 6, 1999