Urbanization and Economic Growth in Asia
Urbanization and Economic Growth in Asia
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亚洲的城市化和经济增长
DOI：
10.1086/449754
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发表时间：
1957
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
B. Hoselitz
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作者：
B. Hoselitz
很少有社会机构像城市那样被诗人和哲学家以如此矛盾的方式来评判：它们被描述为道德罪恶的根源；它们被描绘成人类成就的顶峰。如何协调这两个图像？城市在文明的发展中发挥了什么作用？如果目前的欠发达国家要获得高水平的物质福利，可以或必须以什么方式重复西方世界的经验？工业化和城市化被认为是密切相关的过程。有些人认为大城市和城市系统的存在是一个国家经济“成熟”程度的衡量标准。这种观点意味着，不仅城市化本身，而且特定的城市化模式也与经济增长相关。但可能会提出这样的问题：这两个过程之间是否存在必要的严格相关性，工业增长是否不能通过有计划的权力下放过程来实现，以及另一方面，城市化是否可以在没有工业化伴随的情况下出现。
Few social institutions have been judged by poets and philosophers in such contradictory fashion as cities: they are represented as the source of moral evils; they are painted as the zenith of human achievement. How can these two images be reconciled? What was the role of cities in the unfolding of civilization? In what way can or must the experiences of the Western world be repeated if the present underdeveloped countries are to attain high levels of material welfare ? Industrialization and urbanization have been regarded as closely related processes. The presence of large cities and of systems of cities is thought by some a measure of the degree of economic "maturity" of a country. This view implies that not merely urbanization as such, but a particular pattern of urbanization, is associated with economic growth. But the question may be raised whether there exists a necessary strict correlation between the two processes, whether industrial growth cannot take place by a process of planned decentralization, and whether, on the other hand, urbanization can appear without concomitant industrialization.