Urban Growth Dynamics in a Regional Cluster of Cities
In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 360
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In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 360
In: Population: revue bimestrielle de l'Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques. French edition, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 607
ISSN: 0718-6568, 1957-7966
In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 430
In: Comparative Urban Studies v.1
This volume features the research of international scholars, whose work addresses the representative history of small cities and urban networking in various parts of the Indian Ocean world in an era of change, allowing them the opportunity to compare approaches, methods, and sources in the hopes of discovering common features as well as notable differences
In: The economic history review, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 514
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 105-106
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: National municipal review, Band 37, Heft 5, S. 256-258
In: Social studies: a periodical for teachers and administrators, Band 53, Heft 6, S. 203-213
ISSN: 2152-405X
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 68, Heft 4, S. 629-631
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 189-198
ISSN: 1467-9299
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 17-22
ISSN: 1542-7811
AbstractEfforts of urban areas to meet local economic problems play vital role in national program.
In: National municipal review, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 130-132
AbstractGreat urban centers [may crumble about us] unless we find orderly plan for dispersion of people, trade and industry.
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 86-103
ISSN: 1475-2999
This essay has sought to bring out salient points that can throw light both upon the vexing problems of cultural transformation and on the related phenomena of economic growth. It has employed concepts that are relatively recent in the social sciences and that when synthesized provide the elements of a theory of social change. The five main concepts are: the city as a cross-cultural type; the functional urban hierarchy; the nodular regional structure; effective social, political-administrative and economic space; economic growth as being part of a more comprehensive process leading to successively higher levels of integration of the social system.From the concept of the city as a cross-cultural type it follows that there are no fundamental distinctions between industrial and preindustrial cities, but both are sharply distinguished from communal village life. All cities have in common a way of life that is characterized by varying degrees of social heterogeneity and cultural vitality, and by inventiveness, creativity, rationality, and civic consciousness. From the fact that cities and the regions related to them may be seen as functionally differentiated and arranged in hieratic fashion it follows that the extent of urban influence will vary with (a) the stage of evolution reached by the hierarchy as a whole, and (b) the relative position of any given city within the hierarchy.Economic growth has to be seen as part of a comprehensive process of cultural transformation. From the ruthless destruction of old social forms no aspect of society will be spared. It is the influences spreading outward from cities that accomplish both the disruption of the traditional social patterns and the reintegration of society around new fundamental values. The city acts as a coordinating, space-creating force, thus achieving the integration of the social order in its spatial dimensions. Intellectuals, administrators and entrepreneurs are the city's agents in this task. With their success in organizing the life of a society, both as a pattern of activities and as a pattern in space, the traditional notion of a city as a place having definite geographic limits will tend gradually to disappear. Just as Karl Mannheim speaks of fundamental democratization as one of the tendencies of our age, so one may speak of fundamental urbanization as the end-result of modern economic growth. With this, the former distinction between town and country will beblurred and will leave a thoroughly organized, impersonal, and functionally rational society to carry on.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 63, Heft 5, S. 560-560
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Journal of political economy, Band 72, Heft 1, S. 95-96
ISSN: 1537-534X