The Honolulu Metropolitan Area: A Challenge to Traditional Thinking
1958; Wiley; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/973729
ISSN1540-6210
Autores Tópico(s)Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
ResumoAFEW months ago that usually unemoLltional paper The Bond Buyer described IL Hawaii as paradise and a paradox, and also an exciting adventure, a state of mind, and a chain of enchantingly lovely islands. It is indeed all of these things, and more, but in this paper it will be interesting to concentrate on those aspects of Hawaii, and particularly Honolulu, which throw some light on our traditional thinking about government of metropolitan areas on mainland. First, to set background, a few words descriptive of Hawaiian Islands as a group and particularly of Honolulu, our country's only metropolitan area in Pacific, would seem in order. The Hawaiian Islands are remote, being separated by over 2,000 miles from our West Coast cities and from nearest islands in Pacific having populations of any consequence-namely, Samoa and Tahiti. They have been called the most isolated of important land areas. The Hawaiian Islands are largest group in Central Pacific, covering 6,412 square miles of land-about equal to area of states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. The 1950 Census reported a total population for Territory of Hawaii of about a half million.
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