SOSC 188

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• SOSC 188
• Lecture 7
• Dependency Theory (III) Urban

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• Cities in the Core
• The Colonial Cities
• The Modern Third World Cities

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Cities in the Core

• Pre-industrial cities
• small size, political center,
• little industry, extracted countryside resources
• Modern industrial cities
• urbanization industrialization happened
  together, little city-countryside gap

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The Colonial Cities

• A product of Western expansion - urban enclaves
• Primate city along trade routes
• As a pumping station to suck the surplus away to
  the core
• Low rate of urbanization but rapid primate city
  growth
• Over-urbanization Little industry in the city,
  but a lot of urban problems

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The Modern Third World Cities

• Dualism
• Formal sector (large firms, capital intensive,
  modern management)
• and informal sector (small firms, labor
  intensive, family labor)
• Why the two sectors co-exist?
• cheap labor, informal sector as a cushion for
  the influx of rural immigrants (unemployment,
  slums, crimes)