%0 Journal Article
%T The Poor Rural Areas That Must Support The City of the Future
%A Ron Wimberley
%A Libby V. Morris
%J Sociation Today
%D 2006
%I North Carolina Sociological Association
%X Cities have exported poverty to rural areas, yet we forget that cities do not exist in nature. Sociologists and others often seem to forget that. Cities are a product of social behavior. Neither do cities exist in self-sustained vacuums unto themselves. Cities are dependent and interdependent with rural areas and through forms of social interaction that link people living in urban and rural areas. While cities are a product of social behavior, they are dependent upon natural resources. It is from rural areas that the natural resources which sustain cities are produced and extracted.
%K urbanization
%K rural poverty
%K smart growth
%K social behavior
%U http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v42/wim.htm