Urbanization as the Cause of Cities
Notes from the Near East and the Northeast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2299009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander R Thomas (0000-0001-8185-6828, SUNY Oneonta, corresponding author), Alexander Thomas (0000-0002-5788-7883, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 639-663 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-1322 • E-ISSN: 1569-1330 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15691330-12341321 |
| OpenAlex | W1985072978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 54 |
The concept of urbanization has long been used to refer to the growth of cities in a particular region. The definition of a city is notoriously vague, however, and as such using their growth as a mechanism for understanding urbanization is highly problematic. In addition, the sequence of events leading to the urbanization of a region does not indicate that cities necessarily lead to the effects with which urbanization is commonly associated, but rather these 'effects' predate and even facilitate the growth of cities. This paper discusses the concept of urbanization in light of two very distinct case studies of the sequence leading to the growth of cities: that of 'pristine urbanization' in the ancient Fertile Crescent and of later urbanization in the American Northeast
Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Urbanization · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies
The preindustrial city
The Kuwait-British Archaeological Expedition to As-Sabiyah
The Fragile Fabric of Union
B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Urban Fortunes
The Cradle of Agriculture
The Initial Domestication of Goats ( Capra hircus ) in the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago
Zipf's Law for cities
The broad spectrum revisited
Crabgrass Frontier
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals
Landscapes of Power
Myths of the Archaic State
The Global City
The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture
Early Pastoral Nomadism and the Settlement of Lower Mesopotamia
Urbanization before Cities
The Capitalist City
The Halaf Environment and Human Activities in the Khabur Drainage, Syria
Conceptualising and Mapping the Structure of the World System's City System
George Washington's War on Native America
Early Civilizations of the Old World
Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East
World-City Network
The Uruk Expansion
The New Urban Sociology Meets the Old
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
The Urban Revolution
From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932
Archaeology in Turkey
The Rural-urban Continuum1
Drive That Branch
The New England Mill Village, 1790-1860
Trade and power in the fifth and fourth millennia BC
Heartlands and Hinterlands
Third World Cities in Global Perspective
After the Revolution
Subsistence Ecology in the Mediterranean Forest
Cities, Towns, and Urbanism
The Rural-Urban Continuum
The Preindustrial City
Urbanism as a Way of Life
The Walls of Jericho
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |