SOSC 1731 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Natural Monopoly, Land Values, Longrun

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1731
• Professor: Lewis Code

Document Summary

Consistent posiive correlaion with the increase in the area of arable land (suitable for growing crops), improvement of agriculture, the spread of populaion, and the muliplicaion of ciies. Many countries experiencing urban and rural populaion to not be such a big diference in numbers compared to previous centuries. Concentraion of urban power: forgeing that this had repeatedly marked the last stage in the classic cycle of civilizaion, before its complete disrupion and downfall no stability (525) Mumford makes a bold predicion that this metropolitan civilizaion contains within itself the explosive forces that will wipe out all traces of its existence. We see more and more ciies setling down and forming bonds/strengthening, but while that is happening we experience physical disintegraion (war, ire, economic corrosion) which repeats the cycle again. Using historic data to studying the rise and growth of megalopolis.