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Toward a theory of urban-rural migration in the developed world
| Author: |
Wardwell, John M. |
| Date: |
1980 |
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In: New Directions in Urban-Rural Migration. New York, NY: Academic Press, Inc. |
| Abstract: |
This chapter seeks to identify underlying causes of change in the patterns of net migration between urban regions and nonmetropolitan areas that are common to most, if not all, of the developed countries listed above. A pervasive urbanization of the total society is the foremost of these causes. The process of urbanization is here conceived of as a form of the social organization of space, not as the mere concentration of people in space. In these terms, the phrase "highly urbanized society" means a society in which urban forms of social organization have so extended themselves in space as to make the old distinctions between center and hinterland, urban and rural less meaningful than they had been (Hawley, 1971). Concomitantly, rural areas have become more thoroughly integrated in the network of urban activities. They have become more like urban places in some ways, while remaining quite unlike them in other ways. Convergence between urban and rural areas is now as important in guiding migration flows as are the residual differences between them. |
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