The Metropolitan Community (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Metropolitan CommunityToward the close of the nineteenth century the city began to play a new réle in the evolution of settlement in the United States. With the rise of manufacturing, population and wealth became increasingly concentrated in the larger cities. The demand of the city for raw materials for its growing industries, and for specialized types of agricultural products for its increasing population, more and more determined the course of rural settle ment.' New frontiers continued to arise, but chie¿y in areas from which products might be obtained to supply the domestic city market. On the other hand, many of the older areas of rural settlement began to recede in response to the economic forces originating in metropolitan centers. With the growth of population and wealth throughout the nation, the city acquired an increasing range of economic and social functions which it performed not only for its own inhabitants but for rural settle ments as well. Accordingly it increased in economic and cultural dominance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.