City and country the historical evolution of urban-rural systems
"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"--
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham
Lexington Books,
[2021]
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| Series: | Studies in urban-rural dynamics
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2946543.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- The Rise of Assyria
- The Mediterranean World Takes Form
- Collapse and Reemergence
- Chapter 8: Dynamics Culminating
- Urban-Rural Dynamics and the Roman Empire
- Another World-System
- The Golden Age
- Anatomy of Collapse
- Barbarians (Finally)
- A New Plague
- Urban-Rural Dynamics Writ Large
- Chapter 9: World System
- A New Center
- A New Periphery
- Explorers and Slaves
- A New World
- Integration
- Origins of the Modern World-System?
- Conclusion
- Part III: New York's Urban-Rural System
- Chapter 10: Fur
- Feudal Manors
- New York Cities
- The First American Industrial Revolution
- Breaks in the Transportation Network
- The Utica Urban-Rural System
- New York Water
- Growing a Major City
- Chapter 11: Growing the City
- Growth of the City
- Long Island
- Assessing the Pattern
- New York's Hinterland
- New York's Urban-Rural System
- Growing New York (State and City)
- Chapter 12: Change amid Growth
- Systemic Change at Lower Levels
- Restructuring East-Central New York I
- Restructuring East-Central New York II