Massive urbanization is a very recent phenomenon
Evidence
Until very recently, this new social situation was one which only a minuscule proportion of the earth’s population ever had to face. Massive urbanization is a very new phenomenon. Even in the great city-building civilizations of the Mediterranean area, most people went about· their business encased in the kinds of little personal worlds described above. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1056
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- The scale of urban growth read as self-evident is historically unprecedented (similarity 0.90)
- Urbanization is a still-ongoing revolution we have become blase about (similarity 0.84)
- Urban dwellers evolve from fearing strangers to managing them easily (similarity 0.81)
- Urban spatial expansion enabled large-scale segregation of people and activities. (similarity 0.80)
- Modern cities exceed preindustrial ones in population heterogeneity (similarity 0.80)
- Preindustrial cities were overtly and visibly socially heterogeneous (similarity 0.79)
- Preindustrial cities segregated activities far less spatially than modern cities (similarity 0.79)
- Modern cities segregate activities spatially far more than preindustrial ones did (similarity 0.79)
- Even conservative estimates put most historical cities far above 10,000 people. (similarity 0.78)