Theatres of Accumulation

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1Third World urbanization: a changing scenario

1 The shift through migration was seen to be occurring in many Third World societies, but the equation of urbanization and industrialization was considered to constitute true urbanization then. Castells (1977) criticizes the conventional concept of ‘overurbanization’ where ‘the level of urbanization is higher than that which can “normally” be attained, given the level of industrialization’. This, he claims, is ethnocentric, applying ‘the schema of economic growth of the advanced capitalist countries to other social forms in an entirely different conjuncture’ (Castells 1977, 41).

The same criticism might also be applied to Hoselitz’s ...