Examples of rural obligations in the following topics:
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- For people during the medieval era, cities offered a newfound freedom from rural obligations.
- City residence brought freedom from customary rural obligations to lord and community (hence the German saying, "Stadtluft macht frei," which means "City air makes you free").
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- During the 1970s and again in the 1990s, the rural population rebounded in what appeared to be a reversal of urbanization.
- The rural rebound refers to the movement away from cities to rural and suburban areas.
- But again in the 1990s, rural populations appeared to be gaining at the expense of cities.
- Rather than moving to rural areas, most participants in the so-called the rural rebound migrated into new, rapidly growing suburbs.
- Explain the rural rebound and how it contributes to the suburbanization of society
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- Urbanization is the process of a population shift from rural areas to cities, often motivated by economic factors.
- Urbanization is the process of a population shift from rural areas to cities.
- Rural flight is exacerbated when the population decline leads to the loss of rural services (such as business enterprises and schools), which leads to greater loss of population as people leave to seek those features.
- The wealthiest individuals began living in nice housing far in rural areas (as opposed to forms).
- Over time, the world's population has become less rural and more urban.
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- Urbanization is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change.Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration.The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization.
- Percentage of population which is urbanized, by country, as of 2005.As more and more people leave villages and farms to live in cities, urban growth results.The rapid growth of cities like Chicago in the late 19th century and Mumbai a century later can be attributed largely to rural-urban migration and the demographic transition.This kind of growth is especially commonplace in developing countries.
- The United States and United Kingdom have a far higher urbanization level than China, India, Swaziland or Niger, but a far slower annual urbanization rate, since much less of the population is living in a rural area.
- People move into cities to seek economic opportunities.A major contributing factor is known as "rural flight".In rural areas, often on small family farms, it is difficult to improve one's standard of living beyond basic sustenance.Farm living is dependent on unpredictable environmental conditions, and in times of drought, flood or pestilence, survival becomes extremely problematic.In modern times, industrialization of agriculture has negatively affected the economy of small and middle-sized farms and strongly reduced the size of the rural labour market.Cities, in contrast, are known to be places where money, services and wealth are centralized.Cities are where fortunes are made and where social mobility is possible.Businesses, which generate jobs and capital, are usually located in urban areas.Whether the source is trade or tourism, it is also through the cities that foreign money flows into a country.Thus, as with immigration generally, there are factors that push people out of rural areas and pull them into urban areas.
- There are also better basic services as well as other specialist services in urban areas that aren't found in rural areas.
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- Urban social structure differs in significant ways from rural life, which in turn affects the form of social interactions.
- By contrast, rural dwellers may come into contact with only people who look familiar.
- To be concrete, an urban dweller may be suspicious of passersby, while a rural dweller may greet them.
- By contrast, rural dwellers may come into contact with only people who look familiar.
- To be concrete, an urban dweller may be suspicious of passersby, while a rural dweller may greet them.
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- The growth of modern industry from the late 18th century onward led to massive urbanization and the rise of new, great cities, first in Europe, and then in other regions, as new opportunities brought huge numbers of migrants from rural communities into urban areas.
- The United States provides a good example of how this process unfolded; from 1860 to 1910, the invention of railroads reduced transportation costs and large manufacturing centers began to emerge in the United States, allowing migration from rural to urban areas.
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- One factor contributing to neighborhood distinctiveness and social cohesion was the role of rural to urban migration.
- This was a continual process for preindustrial cities in which migrants tended to move in with relatives and acquaintances from their rural past.
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- Counterurbanization is movement away from cities, including suburbanization, exurbanization, or movement to rural areas.
- Urban decay was caused in part by the loss of industrial and manufacturing jobs as they moved into rural areas or overseas, where labor was cheaper.
- The modern U.S. experience has followed a circular pattern over the last 150 years, from a largely rural country, to a highly urban country, to a country with significant suburban populations.
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- This can be framed to describe west versus east, rural versus urban, or traditional values versus progressive secularism.
- As an American phenomenon, it originated in the 1920s when urban and rural American values came into clear conflict.
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- Census Bureau classifies areas as urban or rural based on population size and density.