Originally published in 1935, this book examines the causes of global rural depopulation, slum housing conditions and city over-crowding. The falling birth-rate in the West, town planning, ribbon development, emigration and traffic problems are also discussed with particular focus on how they affect the growth and distribution of populations. Social, psychological and economic factors are all considered, as well as those dependent on physical geography.
Originally published in 1935, this book examines the causes of global rural depopulation, slum housing conditions and city over-crowding.
1.Introduction
2. Soil Fertility, Climate, Accessibility: Origin of
Villages and Towns
3. Bread to Eat and Space to Live In
4. Developments in
Agriculture
5. Regimes of Property in Asia
6. Law and Custom in Africa: The
Magic Instrument
7. The First Duty of Government
8. The Size of Agricultural
Holdings
9. What Governments Do
10. The Growth of Cities
11. Water Supplies:
Sanitation: Feeding the Earth
12. Health in Town and Country
13. Rural
Depopulation
14. Birth, Death and Marriage Rates: A Study of the Falling
Birth-Rate
15. Love, Procreation, Contraception
16. The Garden City Idea
17.
Town and Country Planning
18. Ground Values and Property (Chicago, New York,
Pittsburgh, Houston, Boundary Difficulties near Manchester)
19. Traffic
Troubles
20. Housing
21. A Gracious Disposition
22. Emigration
23.
Cooperation for the Commonweal.
S. Vere Pearson was Physician to the Mundesley Santorium.
