Urbanization and the Development of Pre-Industrial Areas

K. Davis; Hilda Hertz Golden

DOI:10.1086/449673

Corpus ID: 155010637

Urbanization and the Development of Pre-Industrial Areas

@article{Davis1954UrbanizationAT,
  title={Urbanization and the Development of Pre-Industrial Areas},
  author={K. Davis and Hilda Hertz Golden},
  journal={Economic Development and Cultural Change},
  year={1954},
  volume={3},
  pages={6 - 26}
}

K. Davis, Hilda Hertz Golden

Published 1954

Geography

Economic Development and Cultural Change

The process of urbanization, known to be intimately associated with economic development, deserves close attention if we are to understand the recent and future mechanisms of change in pre-industrial areas. Yet up to the present our comparative knowledge of cities and of urbanization is slight, particularly for underdeveloped areas. Considerable interest was shown in the subject toward the end of the last century in the works of Levasseur, Meuriot, and Adna Weber but since then, except for… CONTINUE READING

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