ABSTRACT
The twenty-three urban areas of the South and West included here produced a rather consistent record in the 1990s. The three western urban areas that qualified as a locus of urban crisis were Los Angeles, Denver, and Phoenix, but only during one decade in each case. The economic growth and prosperity of the 1990s is in evidence in the South. The level of segregation of the urban black population of the South was not as great as in the northern urban areas. Metropolitan Los Angeles experienced some difficult times in the 1990s. The population of the metropolitan area increased by 12.7 percent during the decade, a very low number for Los Angeles. The poor economic performance of the early 1990s could not be overcome, and Los Angeles struggled through a continuation of the urban crisis. Total population growth in metropolitan Denver was 492,000, and 38.6 percent of that growth was the increase in the Hispanic population from 209,000 to 399,000.
