DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ecological Footprint, Modernization Theory, Structural Adjustment
8 Feb 2017
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Week 4: class 2: urban development: employment attraction ambitious people. Working in factories in agriculture: theorists: lipton & bates, critique of urbanization, critique of urban bias. Urban bias overestimates possibilities for livelihood improvement. Rural & urban often implies a dichotomy which always includes spatial and sectorial dimensions. Agriculture vs. manufacturing industries, lack of infrastructures in various contexts. Demographic and economic criteria in which definitions or rural and urban areas can vary widely, these definitions also vary widely between different nations, within different nations, and sometimes within the same geographic area. (e. g. Philippines, urban areas are defined by the national consensus only if they are at least 500 people per square km) Agriculture & reliance on manufacturing and services associated with urban areas. : modernization theory with agriculture and urban processes. How processes of rural and urban inequality have been explored in the context of world systems theory. How neoliberal policies have dealt with these issues.
