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Discuss how the social, economic, and geographical processes collectively contribute to the multifaceted phenomenon of urbanization.
Urbanization resists any single-cause explanation. For Lewis Mumford and Gideon Sjoberg, cities were civilisational containers — repositories of power, religion and surplus that redirected the whole of society. For Louis Wirth, urbanism is a "way of life" — a distinct social psychology of density, anonymity and difference. For the economic geographer, cities are central places…
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- I. Urbanization as a social process
- II. Urbanization as an economic process
- III. Urbanization as a geographical process
- The three processes at a glance
- Integrative reading: why the processes must be seen together
- Way Forward
- …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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