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Urbanization of Rural America (Hardcover)
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Urbanization of Rural America (Hardcover)
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Where will people live and work in 21st Century America? Everyone
has to live somewhere, but very few people will live in the old
urban centres of the 19th and 20th century. The old urban centres
burdened with so much obsolescence and enormous replacement cost
for their basic utilities just don't have the ability to hold so
many people even if the people wanted to live or work there.
Increasing, at just 3% per year, the US population will be 556
million in the year 2022 and by 2047 over 1.166 billion! Just as
technology created the old urban centres, new technology is now
spawning the new urban centres in rural America and beyond. The
sands of time have covered many large urban centres all over the
world. They came to life, flourished and then expired when
conditions changed. The many ghost towns in America along with the
decay of many urban centres are also mute testimony to the
transitory nature of man's accomplishments and to the powerful
influence of climate change, wars, natural disasters and most
significantly in the last century, new technology. Our new urban
centres will not only be in rural America, but even in the now
remote parts of Alaska, Canada, Australia, the Orient and most
significantly, the Moon and Mars. With some understanding of how
technology drives these changes, we can be better prepared to plan
for the future and accept the changes.
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