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| Personal Name | Sapalleda, Jillian Glaze A. |
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| Resource Title | Spatial patterns and factors influencing population distribution in Zamboanga City 1990-2010 |
| Date Issued | May 2018 |
| Abstract | The increase of Zamboanga City's population size and density time is inevitable. Similarly, increase in population sizes and densities at the barangay level are inevitable. Population sizes and densities of barangays, however, vary: there are those that are larger or that are growing faster compared to others; and there are those with population densities exceeding 50,000 and those still below 500 in 2010. Can population size and density increases be directed of guided location-wise The main objectives of the study are to characterize the spatial patterns of population distribution in Zamboanga City, more specifically the patterns across barangays, and then to examine the factors that may have influenced the pattern in the location of the city's population. The city has unique geographic configuration: the city center barangays are located at a tip of the peninsula and the outer barangays are located along the coastal areas on each of the East and West side of the peninsula. This study examined how population is distributed and how population increase had been accommodated spatially in such a setting. The barangay is used as the unit of analysis in the study; and, thus, land area, population size and population density were quantified by barangay and then analysed across the city's 98 barangays.The findings of the study saw unequal sizes of land area and population across Zamboanga City's barangays. The analysis of the concentration of population showed 80% of the city's population occupying only 20% of its land area. The degree of concentration changed very little at the city level form 1990 to 2010,but population concentration had varied across different areas of the city. Conclusions about densities of barangays include : differences in barangay level population densities reflected the observed inequality in population distribution; barangays in or near the city center have the highest population densities, while inland and high- elevation barangays on the East a |
| Degree Course | Master of Arts (Urban and Regional Planning) |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Population density; Population Statistics |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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