Horizontal v. Vertical Fragmentation
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Municipal Incorporation in the US, 1789 - 2020
Municipal Fragmentation in U.S. Metro Areas in 3 Maps
Over on Twitter, Dan Immergluck (GSU) asked about what municipal fragmentation in the U.S. at the metropolitan level looked like. I, an expert on local government fragmentation, saw it as my duty to get to the bottom of this. I have the data to do it. It only needs to be reworked slightly.
Per Capita Independent Special Districts, 2017
2017 Census of Governments
Per Capita General-Purpose Local Governments, 2017
Per Capita Local Governments, 2017
2017 Census of Governments
Total Local Governments, 2017
2017 Census of Governments
Local Government Overlap
Long-Run Metropolitan Economic Growth in the U.S.
Full color, stylized maps created for my working paper on local political fragmentation and economic growth. These three maps examine long-run (1960-2000) growth in population, employment, and per capita money income among 314 U.S. metropolitan areas.
Maps in R using urbnmapr
The Urban Institute has released a new package for mapping state and county data in R, urbnmapr. Their posts can be found here and
here. Since I occasionally write about how to make simple maps in R, I am going to quickly go from start to finish on making a county map.