The Role of Cities in the Economic Growth of Underdeveloped Countries

Hoselitz, Bert F.

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“…The histories of economic growth in the economically advanced areas since the mid 18th century and in many developing countries in the 20th century have shown that, in market economies, whenever industrialisation has taken place, it has always been accompanied by rapid urbanisation (Bairoch, 1988 ;Berry, 1981 ;Lampard, 1954/55 ;Hoselitz, 1953) . Indeed, these two parallel processes of modernisation have been so intimately related and their paths and tempos of evolution so closely synchronised that they are often seen as one and the same process .…”

Section: Industrialisation and Urbanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urbanisation from Below: The Growth of Towns in Jiangsu, China

1994

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Urbanisation in China during the Maoist period was largely a consequence of centralised planning and Soviet-type industrialisation dominated by the growth of cities . The towns lost their commercial function and stagnated . Since the reforms of 1978, the growth of towns has emerged as a new force of Chinese urbanisation . This case study of the growth of towns in Jiangsu province shows that enterprises in the towns have attracted a large number of daily commuters and some migrants, resulting in a more diversified pattern of population composition in the towns. The population of the towns is growing at a faster rate than the city population . Manufacturing dominates the employment structure of the designated towns, including county capitals, as well as the rural market towns . The central government of China has not played any active role in the growth of towns . If the towns and town enterprises are allowed to grow for an extended period of time, they may lead to the emergence of a more powerful track of `urbanisation from below' to accompany the established track of 'urbanisation from above' .

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Section: Industrialisation and Urbanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urbanisation from Below: The Growth of Towns in Jiangsu, China

1994

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“…Contrary to diffusion theory (for a classical statement of this view, see Hoselitz, 1969), urban Latin America is not necessarily becoming like urban North America in anything other than the level of urbanization. There are key differences in the process and structure of urbanization between North and South (see Violich, 1987).…”

Section: Unequal Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 86%

Latin American Urbanization and Planning

Angotti¹

1996

Latin American Perspectives

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That the quality of life in Latin American cities is in most ways dramatically inferior to the quality of urban life in North America is hardly disputable. For example, about two-thirds of the 20 million people living in Mexico City live in substandard housing, without adequate water supply, sewerage, garbage disposal, clinics, hospitals, parks, and schools. The Latin American metropolis is characterized by mass poverty and environmental pollution on a scale generally unparalleled in the North. Inequalities between the large metropolitan regions, small cities, and rural towns of Latin American nations are gaping. Inequalities within metropolitan areas are no less dramatic.These urban and regional inequalities are not strictly &dquo;urban&dquo; problems but are a reflection of economic inequalities between North and South and within the South, and an unequal international division of labor. As Armstrong and McGee (1985: 17) note, &dquo;The role of cities in both capital accumulation and the generation of dependence, structural inequality and poverty is part of the larger history of the unequal relations existing within and between societies.&dquo;In this article, I will attempt to show that efforts by governments and the international aid establishment to address urban problems have had little success because they do not address underlying economic inequalities. Many of these planning strategies are based on the assumption that the problem lies with cities themselves and, even more so, with the size of cities.Latin America is among the most urbanized of world regions, with many of the largest metropolitan regions in the world. Thus, a good deal of importance has been placed on curbing urbanization, decentralizing the population, and limiting government initiatives to improve living conditions Thomas Angotti is a city planner and an associate professor in the Graduate Center for Planning

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“…In fact, most of the authors writing about urban issues in the so-called 'developing world' in the 1950s and early 60s were American. Hoselitz (1953), Friedmann (1965) and Mangin (1967) were all…”

Section: B U I L D I N G H E G E M O N I E S : T H E S O C I a L C O mentioning

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11. Making differences: cities, NGOs and the cultural politics of development discourse

O’Coill¹

2002

Communicating for Development

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The Role of Cities in the Economic Growth of Underdeveloped Countries

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Urbanisation from Below: The Growth of Towns in Jiangsu, China

Urbanisation from Below: The Growth of Towns in Jiangsu, China

Latin American Urbanization and Planning

11. Making differences: cities, NGOs and the cultural politics of development discourse

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