The Development of Urban Settlement in a Newly Settled Region
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Total Pages | : 533 |
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Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Publisher | : UN-HABITAT |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Human settlements |
ISBN | : 9789211310412 |
Author | : James R. Gibson |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1978-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487597525 |
Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the recent rise of historical geography in North America. The focus on his research was the opening of New World lands by European peoples, and this North American experience is the subject of this collection of essays written by eight of Clark's students. They examine the role of a new physical and economic environment – particularly abundant and cheap land – in the settlement of New France, the cultural and physical problems that conditioned Russian America, the transformation of cultural regionalism in the eastern United States between the late colonial seaboard and the early republican interior, the changing economic geography of rice farming on the antebellum Southern seaboard, the interrelationships of the European and Indian economies in the pre-conquest fur trade of Canada, differential acculturation and ethnic territoriality among three immigrant groups in Kansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the development in England and the United States of similar social geographic images of the Victorian city, and the erosion of a sense of place and community by possessive individualism in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. The essays are preceded by an appreciation of Clark as an historical geographer written by D.W. Meinig and are brought together in an epilogue by John Warkentin. The work is an unusually consistent Festchrift which should appeal to all interested in the patterns of North American settlement.
Author | : United Nations Publications |
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Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2019-10-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789211483192 |
The report presents findings from the 2018 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural populations or areas from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2050, as well as estimates of population size from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2030 for all urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018. The world urban population is at an all-time high, and the share of urban dwellers, is projected to represent two thirds of the global population in 2050. Continued urbanization will bring new opportunities and challenges for sustainable development.
Author | : P. Scott Corbett |
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Total Pages | : 1886 |
Release | : 2024-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
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U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author | : Russell S. Kirby |
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Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Author | : Margaret Walsh |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813182212 |
The history of the meat packing industry of the Midwest offers an excellent illustration of the growth and development of the economy of that major industrial region. In the course of one generation, meat packing matured from a small-scale, part-time activity to a specialized manufacturing operation. Margaret Walsh's pioneering study traces the course of that development, shedding light on an unexamined aspect of America's economic history. As the Midwest emerged from the frontier period during the 1840s and 1850s, the growing urban demand for meat products led to the development of a seasonal industry conducted by general merchants during the winter months. In this early stage the activity was widely dispersed but centered mainly along rivers, which provided ready transportation to markets. The growth of the railroads in the 1850s, coupled with the westward expansion of population, created sharp changes in the shape and structure of the industry. The distinct advantages of good rail connections led to the concentration of the industry primarily in Chicago, but also in St. Louis and Milwaukee. The closing of the Mississippi River during the Civil War insured the final dominance of rail transport and spelled the relative decline of such formerly important packing points as Cincinnati and Louisville. By the 1870s large and efficient centralized stockyards were being developed in the major centers, and improved technology, particularly ice-packing, favored those who had the capital resources to invest in expansion and modernization. By 1880, the use of the refrigerated car made way for the chilled beef trade, and the foundations of the giant meat packing industry of today had been firmly established. Margaret Walsh has located an impressive array of primary materials to document the rise of this important early industry, the predecessor and in many ways the precursor of the great industrial complex that still dominates today's midwestern economy.
Author | : Kevin F. McCarthy |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Migration, Internal |
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With the advent of renewed nonmetropolitan population growth, settlement patterns within America's more thinly settled areas have become more evenly distributed. Recent patterns of community growth outside metropolitan areas reflect the rising influence of the population dispersion process. What remains unclear, however, is the extent to which this shift in settlement patterns reflects a permanent realignment of the push and pull factors supporting population consolidation. While an increasing proportion of the population appears to be choosing to live in small communities, the fact that small communities are growing fastest in the most urbanized nonmetropolitan areas suggests that such behavior may represent less a repudiation of urbanization per se than an expressed distaste for life in large cities. As public opinion surveys have repeatedly shown, while Americans have an abiding distaste for life in large cities, their ideal residential community is not an isolated rural farm but rather a small, safe, and environmentally clean community within easy access of a large central city. Thus, the apparent emergence of settlement dispersion may simply be an inevitable byproduct of increasing affluence and technological improvements that have only recently permitted Americans to act upon long-held predispositions. Whether Americans can continue to realize this ideal in a period of rising energy costs and continued devaluation of the dollar remains to be seen.
Author | : Norton Sydney Ginsburg |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824812973 |
Asian urbanization is entering a new phase that differs significantly from the patterns of city growth experienced in other developing countries and in the developed world. According to a recent hypothesis, zones of intensive economic interaction between rural and urban activities are emerging. The zones appear to be a new form of socioeconomic organization that is neither rural nor urban, but preserves essential ingredients of each.