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CITY SYSTEMS URBAN HISTORY AND ECONOMIC MODERNITY Urbanization ...

Source: www-dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu
Topic: Economic History

Sort Desciption: reflecting the process of economic development. Proponents of this. view insist that urban history should be a history of urbanization ...

Content Inside: Berkeley Planning Journal 13 (1999): 102-128 CITY SYSTEMS URBAN HISTORY AND ECONOMIC MODERNITY Urbanization and the Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Society Gary Fields One of the defining issues in the transition from agrarian to industrial society is the role played by urbanization in the creation of industrial modernity. The approach to this issue deriving from urban history consists of intensive case study research focused on particular urban places. A second approach inspired by traditions in geography demography and planning focuses on systems of cities and the role of such systems in promoting and reflecting the process of economic development. Practitioners of this approach insist that urban history should be a history of urbanization that transcends the experiences of individual urban communities. This essay is a comparison and critique of models developed by theorists from this second group. The comparison focuses on how four broad themestrade production population and state-buildingfunction as prime movers of urbanization and economic modernization. The results of this comparison suggest that population movements play a decisive role in urban development and the transition to industrial modernity but these population shifts are best understood in conjunction with the impacts of trade patterns production activities and state-building. One of the most compelling issues in the transition from agrarian to industrial society is the role played by urban development in the creation of industrial modernity. Central to this issue is the puzzle of whether the city is the agent or the product of industrial modernization (Hohenberg 1990). The methodological approach to this puzzle deriving from urban history consists primarily of intensive case study research. Its focus lies in describing the characteristics of a particular urban place and how such individual places serve as microcosms of broader historical transformations. Urban histories however ...

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