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The Midwestern and Western United States became urban majority in the 1910s, while the Southern United States only became urban-majority after World War II, in the 1950s. [ 2 ] The Western U.S. is the most urbanized part of the country today, followed closely by the Northeastern United States.
Measures for urban sprawl in Europe: upper left the Dispersion of the built-up area (DIS), upper right the weighted urban proliferation (WUP). The term urban sprawl was often used in the letters between Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn, [17] firstly by Osborn in his 1941 letter to Mumford and later by Mumford, generally condemning the waste of agricultural land and landscape due to ...
Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 (1955) Brownell, Blaine A. and Goldfield, David R. The City in southern history: The growth of urban civilization in the South (1977) Conn, Steven. Americans against the City: Anti-urbanism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2014) Douglass, Harlan Paul.
During the mid to late 20th century, most socialist countries in the Eastern Bloc were characterized by under-urbanization, [9] which meant that industrial growth occurred well in advance of urban growth, which was sustained by rural-urban commuting. City growth, residential mobility, land, and housing development were under tight political ...
Urbanization over the past 500 years [13] A global map illustrating the first onset and spread of urban centres around the world, based on. [14]From the development of the earliest cities in Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context ...
Municipal annexation is a process by which a municipality acquires new territory, [1] most commonly by expanding its boundaries into an adjacent unincorporated area. This has been a common response of cities to urbanization in neighboring areas.
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States [1]) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. [2] Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighted areas in inner cities in favour of new housing, businesses, and other developments.
The concept of Arturo Soria's of the linear city model and the "linear city movement" Ebenezer Howard's influential 1902 diagram, illustrating urban growth through garden city "off-shoots" Hampstead Garden Suburb. The first major urban planning theorist in Britain was Sir Ebenezer Howard, who initiated the garden city movement in 1898.