Prepared By Prof Alvin So1 SOSC 188 Lecture 7 Dependency Theory (III): Urban

Prepared By Prof Alvin So2 Cities in the Core The Colonial Cities The Modern Third World Cities

Prepared By Prof Alvin So3 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

Prepared By Prof Alvin So4 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

Prepared By Prof Alvin So5 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)