Population and Settlement

Baltimore is an ever expanding and highly populated city. Nearly 335 million people live in North America; they are the world’s most affluent and highly mobile populations. Big cities like Baltimore have many people commuting to different locations. The road I-95 is a huge benefit for Baltimore because it makes commuting easier. Baltimore is in the top five largest settlements of the United States. Immigration is a great factor in increasing populations of regions, but that is not the only factor in the increase of populations. In 1946 through 1965 the population grows very rapidly because of the baby boomers generation. The total fertility rate is 2.1 which is the ideal TFR for a steadily growing population. Forty-three million people are foreign to our country these growing numbers lead demographic experts to believe by the year 2050 North America will have 445 million people. One in five Americans move annually mainly because of job opportunities, but where do they move to? They move toward the middle of North America where there commute might be easier to handle. Changing transportation technologies shaped the growth of a city in the United States. The horse and buggy were very limited in their ability to get to places very fast, so it made it almost impossible to get to your job if the town was huge. Then they invented the street car which had better speed and almost never ran out of juice so the cities could be even bigger because people could go different places faster and it was more reliable. The final transportation device is the tram. The tram can carry a lot of people at one time, and you barely have to pay for it. The tram is reliable and very fast making our cities even bigger!