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Cities is a role-playing supplement that is "generic" in nature — that is, it is not designed for any specific role-playing game system. Two editions of the book were published by Midkemia Press, in 1979 [1] and 1983; [2] Chaosium published a third edition in 1986 titled Cities: Create and Explore Your Own Fantasy Communities. [3]
In 1900 alone, the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania lost about 1,600,000 people to the cities, [32] where these former agricultural workers were absorbed into the rapidly growing factory labor class; [33] One of the causes of this mass-migration was the decrease in rural income compared to the ...
London, a city in the United Kingdom, is a large settlement with a human population of 14 million in its metropolitan area.. In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place.
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.
The migration that brought millions of farmers and townspeople to the bigger cities in the 1920s suddenly reversed itself, as unemployment made the cities unattractive, and the network of kinfolk and more ample food supplies made it wise for many to go back.
The term "circular migration" describes the fluid movement of people between areas, usually for the purpose of employment. [1] The term itself first came into use in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly related to urbanization, development, and internal migration. [2] There are six criteria that define migration as being circular: [3] Temporary; Renewable
The migration of the Walser in the territory of present-day Switzerland to areas that had formerly been inhabited by Romans. The Walser settlers left their homes in Valais and founded villages in the uplands of the Alp valleys (in the north of Italy and in the Grisons ).
Urban culture is the culture of towns and cities.The defining theme is the presence of a large population in a limited space that follows social norms. [1] This makes it possible for many subcultures close to each other, exposed to social influence without necessarily intruding into the private sphere. [2]