The Poor Rural Areas That Must Support The City of the Future
Cities have exported poverty to rural areas, yet we forget that cities do not exist in nature. Sociologists and others often seem to forget that. Cities are a product of social behavior. Neither do cities exist in self-sustained vacuums unto themselves. Cities are dependent and interdependent wi...
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North Carolina Sociological Association
2006-11-01
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| description | Cities have exported poverty to rural areas, yet we forget that cities do not exist in nature. Sociologists and others often seem to forget that. Cities are a product of social behavior. Neither do cities exist in self-sustained vacuums unto themselves. Cities are dependent and interdependent with rural areas and through forms of social interaction that link people living in urban and rural areas. While cities are a product of social behavior, they are dependent upon natural resources. It is from rural areas that the natural resources which sustain cities are produced and extracted. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0280c1958470443dbf2d22e34e9306af2022-12-21T22:48:27ZengNorth Carolina Sociological AssociationSociation Today1542-63002006-11-0142The Poor Rural Areas That Must Support The City of the FutureRon WimberleyLibby V. MorrisCities have exported poverty to rural areas, yet we forget that cities do not exist in nature. Sociologists and others often seem to forget that. Cities are a product of social behavior. Neither do cities exist in self-sustained vacuums unto themselves. Cities are dependent and interdependent with rural areas and through forms of social interaction that link people living in urban and rural areas. While cities are a product of social behavior, they are dependent upon natural resources. It is from rural areas that the natural resources which sustain cities are produced and extracted.http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v42/wim.htmurbanizationrural povertysmart growthsocial behavior |
| spellingShingle | Ron Wimberley Libby V. Morris The Poor Rural Areas That Must Support The City of the Future Sociation Today urbanization rural poverty smart growth social behavior |
| title | The Poor Rural Areas That Must Support The City of the Future |
| title_full | The Poor Rural Areas That Must Support The City of the Future |
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| title_short | The Poor Rural Areas That Must Support The City of the Future |
| title_sort | poor rural areas that must support the city of the future |
| topic | urbanization rural poverty smart growth social behavior |
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