ISBN:
9781793644336
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 475 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Studies in urban–rural dynamics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thomas, Alexander R., 1969 - City and country
DDC:
307.7609
Keywords:
Urbanization History
;
Urban-rural migration History
;
Rural-urban relations History
;
Urbanization--History
;
Urban-rural migration--History
;
Rural-urban relations--History
;
Electronic books
;
Stadt
;
Umland
;
Beziehung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
City and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern global order and argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Biblical Quotes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Three Paradigms -- Environmental Demography -- Multidisciplinary Approaches -- Social Structuralism and Urbanormativity -- The Book -- Part I: The Environmental Demography of Urban-Rural Systems -- Chapter 1: Environmental Demography and Urban-Rural Systems -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- The World-System as a Complex System -- Humans as Biologically Adaptive -- Humans as Socially Adapted -- Complex Adaptive Urban-Rural Systems -- Chapter 2: Classical Urban-Rural Theory -- First Wave Theories: Political Economy and Economic Geography -- Second Wave Theories: Culture and Complex Adaptive Systems -- Third Wave Theories: Spatial Organization and Rural-Urban Comparisons -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Urban-Rural Theory -- Evolutionary, Functionalist, and Modernization Theories -- The Political Economy Resurgence -- Turn of the Millennium Developments -- Conclusion: Status of Urban-Rural Theory -- Part II: From the Near East to the Northeast -- From the Near East to the Northeast -- Chapter 4: In the Beginning -- Old Stone Age: The Paleolithic -- New Stone Age: The Neolithic -- The Stone Ages in Context -- Chapter 5: Emerging Urban-Rural Systems -- The Pottery Window into Culture -- Complex Society and Emerging Urban-Rural Systems -- Uruk and the First Cities -- The World-System as Urban-Rural System -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6: History Begins -- The "System" Already Existed! -- Cities and Urbanization -- City-States and Empires -- Egyptian Emergence and Expansion -- Expanding Political Economies -- Cultural Continuities in Religious Belief -- A Multicultural Culture -- Encoding Social Structure -- Chapter 7: Collapse or Continuity? -- The Great Catastrophe -- Independence from Colonizers.
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