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Urbanized Society Needs Met by Rural People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Lee Taylor*
Affiliation:
Urban Studies Institute, Louisiana State University in New Orelans

Extract

There are no viable social structures in urbanized society that prevent urban people from providing their own needs in terms of food, fiber and recreation. Therefore, rural people will have to make a concerted effort if they are to fulfill any of the future needs of an urbanized society.

In the social institutional organization of urbanized society, food and fiber production are primarily integrated parts of general economic production of goods and services. In the United States, unlike many areas of the world, a major social equilibrium problem is over production of food and fiber. People and land are moved out of this area of economic activity. The affluent resources of the society are increasingly transferred to other social institutional areas.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1970

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