00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862467544 Buklod 20240201112343.0 m | | ta 230321s1971 enkab rb |||| u|eng d 0713516232 (iLib)UPBAG-00046823902 OLC BAG rda eng HT 169.5 M34 1971 McGee, T.G. author. The urbanization process in the Third World explorations in search of a theory T.G. McGee. London G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. [1971] 179 pages illustrations, maps 22 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. pt. 1. Theoretical Explorations -- The Urbanization Process: Western Theory and Third World Reality -- The Rural-Urban Continuum Debate: The Preindustrial City and Rural-Urban Migration -- Revolutionary Change and the Third World City: A Theory of Urban Involution -- P.2. The Test of Reality -- An Aspect of Urbanization in Southeast Asia: The Process of Cityward Migration -- The Cultural Role of Cities: A Case Study of Kuala Lumpur -- Appendix. Key to the location of census divisions in Kuala Lumpur -- Malays in Kuala Lumpur City: An Investigation of one Aspect of the Process of Urbanization-Occupational Mobility -- Appendix. Occupational Classification adopted for study of Malay Occupational Mobility in Kuala Lumpur. A collection of essays whose theme is one of growing disillusionment with the application of urban theories developed in the West to urbanization process in the third world... The first section attempts to show the limitations of the 'similar path' theories and to put forth alternative theoretical models for analysis of urbanization in the third world. The second section is based on the author's fieldwork in Southeast Asia and by actual examples he illustrates the inadequacy of the Western - based theoretical model of the urbanization process. Urbanization Developing countries. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN HT 169.5 M34 1971 Book