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Urbanization in the World Economy (Hardcover)
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Urbanization in the World Economy (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Social Discontinuity
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To date, most interpretations of urbanization have focused on the
internal dynamics of regions or nations, or at best on narrow
relations of international dependency. This text recognizes a
complementary world-system process theory. The intent is not to
argue that world-system processes totally determine urban change,
but rather that patterns of urbanization within regions cannot be
adequately understood without at least taking global political
economic processes into account.
The book begins with a discussion of how a world-system theory of
urbanization differs from other approaches. This is followed by a
discussion of theoretical issues involved in the world-system
approach. The final section of the book consists of empirical
studies which use this theoretical perspective to shed light on
urbanization patterns either within selected countries or globally.
The main themes which are examined include urban primacy and city
systems, urban labor force patterns, over-urbanization, and rates
or levels of urban concentration.
This book contains a review of urbanization literature and
discussion concerning the informal labor sector in peripheral
areas, core-peripheral relations at the global level, urban primacy
theory and its critique, and recent patterns of labor force
structure in the world economy. The effects of the mobility of
capital and labor on U.S. cities are reviewed and a comparison
between the urban systems of South Korea and the Philippines is
made. The authors present data on city-size hierarchy at the world
level for the past 1000 years and find that changes in the world
city-size distribution correspond to cycles in the world system.
They conclude that regional studiesand global analyses support
interpretations of urbanization using the world-system
paradigm.
From the Preface:
The processes of urbanization have long been regarded as integral
to socioeconomic development. However, scholarly opinion about
global urban patterns is divided, ranging from claims that the
growth of urban population in a given region is an inevitable
concomitant of modernization to assertions that too-rapid urban
growth, especially in a region's largest city, may actually impede
balanced development. Despite this diversity of opinion, observers
agree that there is tremendous global unevenness in patterns of
urbanization.
Our understanding of uneven development has been transformed in
recent years by the emergence of the world-system perspective,
which, however, has until now illuminated aspects of dependency and
development other than urbanization. The purpose of this book is to
use the world-system paradigm to systematically interpret processes
of urbanization. The book is directed toward students of
urbanization and development who may approach their subject from a
variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, political
economy, geography, history, political science, and sociology.
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