SOC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Hypercity, Import Substitution Industrialization, Industrial Revolution
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These acts of immigration are creating megacities that combine the old and new. Communities are divided, with outsiders and insiders unable to build relationships and coherent communities . Thus, the cities of the future, rather than being made out of glass and steel as envisioned by earlier generations of urbanists, are instead largely constructed out of crude brick, straw, recycled plastic, cement blocks, and scrap wood. If such a trend continues unabated, we will have only slums and no cities. Globalization has increased the movement of people, goods, services, information, news, products, and money, and thereby the presence of urban characteristics in rural traits in urban centers. Rural people no longer have to migrate to the city; it migrates to them. Engulfed by urbanization without migrating, their lives overturned, even while remaining on the spot where they were born. The slums were not a product of the industrial revolution.
