Today's
NY Times includes an obit for demographer
Calvin Beale. Over the years, he and USDA colleagues have mapped and
categorized counties in ways that are indispensible these days that the urban-suburban-exurban-rural continuum is not what it used to be. Central city vs. suburbs distinctions are stale -- but still invoked by many who should know better. Beale was among the first to suggest a better way. He proved his point via the hard work that he did and inspired.