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The natural history of urbanization has not yet been written, for only a small part of the prelim... more The natural history of urbanization has not yet been written, for only a small part of the preliminary work has been done. The literature of the city itself, until a halfcentury ago, was barren to the point of nonexistence; and even now the ecologists of the city, dealing too largely with a late and limited aspects of urbanism, have hardly staked out the ground that is to be covered. Our present purpose, accordingly, is to make use of such studies as have so far been made in order to ask more pointed questions and so, incidentally, to indicate further fields of profitable study.
The natural history of urbanization has not yet been written, for only a small part of the prelim... more The natural history of urbanization has not yet been written, for only a small part of the preliminary work has been done. The literature of the city itself, until a halfcentury ago, was barren to the point of nonexistence; and even now the ecologists of the city, dealing too largely with a late and limited aspects of urbanism, have hardly staked out the ground that is to be covered. Our present purpose, accordingly, is to make use of such studies as have so far been made in order to ask more pointed questions and so, incidentally, to indicate further fields of profitable study.