- Desakota
-
Desakota is a term defined by the Canadian geographer T. McGee. It comes from Indonesian (desa means "village", while kota means "city") and characterizes the original form of large cities in Asia. These cities generally have peripheral rural areas with high population densities, particularly because of the rice cultivation which is always a labor-intensive.
So do not confuse desakota with suburban and rural areas distant peripheries of large cities in Europe and North America. According to the English geographer Michael Hebbert, "The metropolis was formed by the migration of suburbanites to the sparsely populated hinterlands, with the automotive industry. Desakota are based on integration into the urban economy of densely populated by farm households moving into mopeds."
See also
This sociology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
