01 The premise of urbanization
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Britain also began to urbanize at the time of the Industrial Revolution.
The relationship between urbanization and the Industrial Revolution is the relationship between outcomes and factors.
The Industrial Revolution brought about a completely new mode of production, that is, a centralized mode of production.
The concentration of population led to the expansion of cities, and urbanization accelerated during the Industrial Revolution.
The most basic function of a city is to serve as a transit point for trade and a gathering place for handicrafts.
The primitive city was the product of a trading hub.
Cities relied on transportation networks and arable land, and cities in classical times were all next to rivers or fertile land.
The river transport brought by the river allows crops to be transferred and sold.
The fertile land nearby provides the most basic agricultural products.
As the initial value product, the profit of agricultural products is naturally not high.
If you want to make more profits, you need to increase the added value of agricultural products. Processing is the best way.
Silk is processed as silk or clothing, and rice is processed as dry food.
These processes led to primitive handicrafts, and the best gathering places for handicraft workers were in the cities.
The city has high-quality raw materials and a vast market, and convenient transportation also allows more opportunities for handicraft products to be sold.
The exchange between industries has also led to technological advancements, which have made cities even more important.
Moreover, the production of primitive handicrafts is not high, and the fragile industrial environment makes handicrafts extremely dependent on the shelter of cities.
The vast countryside naturally has a lot of scattered handicraft workers, but most of them are side jobs for agricultural workers.
True artisans must rely on the protection of cities and gathering places.
The transition from handicraft to industry brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and industry has higher requirements for population agglomeration.
The influx of people into cities and the increase in the population of local cities have further increased the scale of urbanization.
The premise of urbanization is nothing more than industry and population agglomeration.
The progress of technology makes the industry hold each other together, and the population will naturally gather.
Under the industrial mode of production, each industry cannot produce independently.
In the iron smelting industry, for example, smelters and processing plants must be interdependent.
The assembly line of the processing plant could not be produced separately from the handicrafts of the classical era.
The centralized mode of production brought about by industrialization has made it necessary for practitioners to gather. Engagement requires close cooperation and cooperation.
If there is no cooperation or cooperation, then the quality and production efficiency of the product are unqualified.
The convergence of industrial workers has brought a huge market, and catering and service industry workers have also begun to gather in the city.
The market for these industries is extremely dependent on the population base, and the population of industrialized cities is a naturally large market.
In addition, the transportation industry has begun to transform into more efficient rail transportation due to industrial production methods and advanced products.
Rail hubs are generally located in cities, which gives more opportunities for products from various industries to be sold.
The transit and sale of products are extremely dependent on transportation hubs and large cities.
Industrialization has brought not only the concentration of industries, but also the great development of other industries.
Urbanization depends on the population base, which, in addition to population agglomeration, includes the growth of the overall population and the healthy life of the population.
Technological advances brought about by industrialization have led to significant growth in the medical and food industries, and advanced medical equipment and high-quality food supplies have led to an increase in the overall number of people.
Most of these populations belong to or flow to the industrial population, and these industrial populations are concentrated in cities.
As the population base of a city expands, so does the size of the city.
In the eighteenth century, England made great strides from the textile industry to the smelting industry and the transportation industry.
The textile industry brought warm clothing to the population, and the smelting industry brought advanced production tools to the population.
The transportation industry has allowed these products to flow from cities to other places, facilitating the development of basic agriculture.
02 Industrialization promotes agriculture
Agriculture is the fundamental factor supporting the growth of the population base, and advanced agricultural production methods are the prerequisite for population growth.
With higher yields of agricultural products, more people can be fed.
The progress from primitive agriculture to classical agriculture was the progress from bronze farming tools to iron farming tools, and agricultural production changed from tools to methods.
The progress from classical agriculture to modern agriculture is the progress from simple human production to machine production, and machines have improved not only efficiency but also safety.
Classical agriculture was difficult to defend against natural variations, while modern agriculture can guarantee a certain degree of harvest.
Of course, the abilities of nature are powerful. No matter how much progress is made in agricultural production, it cannot compete with nature.
Modern agriculture, however, has made more efficient use of nature's factors that are conducive to production.
It can also be safer to resist the factors of nature that are not conducive to production.
The development of agriculture is to improve the quality and stability of grain.
The population, aided by modern agriculture, began to blow out.
The new jobs brought about by industrialization have also met the employment needs of the population.
Populations that have enough jobs in cities can also create value in cities.
In this context, urbanization is not surprising.
The Industrial Revolution has always been the most important stage in human history, and the Industrial Revolution marks the great development of human civilization.
However, there are advantages and disadvantages to such a great development, and the pollution of the natural environment is a hard injury to industrialization.
In the 19th century, London was called the capital of fog because of the excessive concentration of factories.
Fog is the sorrow of industrialization, and the smoke that pervades the city turns it into a forbidden place of steel.
As the people of the new era, we should not give up industry because of the backlash, nor should we blindly pursue the so-called industrial development.
Finding a balance between industrial development and the natural environment is something that modern countries have always been looking for.
Strict standards for industrial emissions are an effective measure to protect the natural environment.
Violations of emission standards should not be compromised but criticized.
We need to keep in mind the adherence to environmental laws. The protection of nature should start with every citizen.
Only by being kind to nature can we make great progress on this beautiful planet.
Nowadays, the socialist laws of the mainland attach great importance to the protection of the natural environment.
The national policy and ideological program for green development were proposed.
As a development policy, green development should not only exist on paper, but should be deeply imprinted in everyone's heart.
Man and nature are inherently one, and man is a part of nature and is not separated from it.
Economic development needs to be obtained, and the natural environment must also be obtained.
An economy is only a well-developed economy if it is in nature.