SOSC 2730 Study Guide - Northeast Megalopolis, Vishvarupa, Encase
6 May 2014
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The city in history: reading guide the myth of megalopolis. What is the classic cycle of civilization" that mumford speaks of? (525) Many countries are now entering an era when the urban population will not merely be greater than the rural population, but when the actual area occupied or pre-empted by urban growth will rival that devoted to cultivation. One of the signs of this change has been the increase in the number, area, and population of great cities. Possibly one of the reasons for the oft-repeated urban cycle of growth, expansion, and disintegration, as i suggested earlier, lies in the very nature of civilization itself. We have seen that in many instances the city tends to encase the organic, many-sided life of the community in petrified and overspecialized forms that achieve continuity at the expense of adaptation and further growth.
