...Economics, and Public Law, XI: 1 (Columbia University, 1899) ; reprinted by permission of the author That the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...concentration of population in cities is a common observation. JOHN S. MACKENZIE, An Introduction to Social Philosophy, 101 (Jamea Maclehose & Sons, 1890) ; reprinted...

...the potentialities of history written "from the bottom up." I Laborer and Community at Mid-Century "The most remarkable social phenomenon of the present...century is the concentration of population in cities," an American scholar noted in 1899.1 The rise of the modern city was the product of a series of economic,...

...Appendix B. The Problem of Metropolitan Definition At the end of the 19th century, Adna Weber observed that, "the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...century is the concentration of population in cities," and he considered the tendency towards population concentration to be "all but universal in the Western...

...Appendix B. The Problem of Metropolitan Definition At the end of the 19th century, Adna Weber observed that, "the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...century is the concentration of population in cities," and he considered the tendency towards population concentration to be "all but universal in the Western...

...wrote his monumental study The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century, Adna Ferrin Weber concluded that "the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...century is the concentration of population in cities" (Weber 1899: 1). Chandler's statistics reveal a fivefold increase in the cities exceeding 125,000 population...

...By 1850 its population had doubled, and by 1900 it had reached 5 million. In 1899 an observer wrote that "the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...century is the concentration of population in cities." By then a majority of the population of Britain was urbanized. Many were horrified by the unnatural...

...City IN 1899 ADNA WEBER began his masterpiece on urban growth in the nineteenth century by writing, "The most remarkable social phenomenon of the present century is the concentration of population in cities."1 One hundred years later, the evolution of cities is still among the most interesting and...

...time to rethink seriously what kind of nation this was turning out to be. Economist Adna Weber, noting that "the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...century is the concentration of population in cities," reflected many Americans' uncertainty as to whether the unpredictability of city life was a phenomenon...

...AND URBANIZATION American observer Adna Weber voiced the sentiments of his age when he wrote in 1899 that "the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...present century is the concentration of population in cities."86 This urban population gathered in cities that were of unprecedented size in European history....

...wrote his monumental study The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century. Adna Ferrin Weber concluded that "the most remarkable social phenomenon of the...century is the concentration of population in cities" (Weber 1899: 1). Chandler's statistics reveal a fivefold increase in the cities exceeding 125,000 population...