THE DRIFT TO THE TOWNS
" The trend toward urbanisatiOn and concentratiOn seetts likely to be strengthened by the further, probable, incrcase in the productivity of agriculture; for if the amounts of food and Other agricultural products needed can he obtained from smaller areas the tendency to abandott the poorer marginal lands and concentrate oultiV&tion in the more fertile areas will be greatly strengthened. These developments are occiirring eoincidently with the cessation of that rapid inorease in numbers Which has been a principal fact of human life for the past two centurieS. Hence it seems that apart from catastrophic distu»bances (such as a great war) present trends of population movements point toward (1) the probable reduction in the population of the, at present, thinly peopled lands, (2) a concentration of a still larger propOrtion of the world's inhabitants into a few great populous regions, and (3) a furthCr increase in the size and dominance of a f6w areas of maximum concentration of population, among Which the three leaders ar6 those dfisCribed in Western Europe, jn Eafetem North Amerjoa, and iu China.''— PiQfeBSor ^ 1. .fAw.cetj »
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 70, 15 December 1937, Page 4
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183THE DRIFT TO THE TOWNS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 70, 15 December 1937, Page 4
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