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- Title
THE EFFECTS OF URBAN GROWTH ON THE COUNTRYSIDE.
- Authors
Ashby, A. W.
- Abstract
This article discusses the impacts of urban growth on the countryside in Great Britain. In this country about 7 percent of the gainfully occupied persons supply the food equivalent of nearly half the supply for whole population. Thus urbanization arises on the industrial and the economic side from the pre-farm manufacture of agricultural requirements and from the post-farm transport, marketing, processing, manufacturing, servicing of food supplies, and because most if not all these processes are more economically conducted on a large than a small scale. The small market town will be the source of many common necessaries for most of the families in its area, and the source of their highest luxuries for the poorest families. The absorption of the common elements of civilization and culture is desirable, and in this country is inevitable. Differences of age and sex between the total rural and total urban populations are now slight. The rural population must indeed have been potent. For a long time it has not exceeded 22 percent. However, the present conclusion must be that there is no evidence to show general mental deterioration of inheritable character in the rural population.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CITIES &; towns; FOOD supply; MARKET towns; POPULATION; URBAN policy
- Publication
Sociological Review (1908-1952), 1939, Vol a31, Issue 4, p345
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954x.1939.tb02040.x