![]() ![]() While Addis Ababa was dying, Rome was rising. ![]() In the course of time, Jacobs recalls, we have witnessed continual transfers of wealth and welfare from one city to the other and, hence, from one empire or state to another: “So far, going back and back to Neolithic times, there seems never to have been a simultaneous deadening of cities over the entire world, and thus no period in which all economic life consisted of bypassed, subsistence life. On the contrary, “when a city at the nucleus of a city region stagnates and declines, it does so because it no longer experiences from time to time significant episodes of import-replacing” (p. The very mechanism of city import-replacing automatically decrees the formation of city regions” (p. “Cities that generate city regions of any significance possess that capacity, or have possessed it in the past. ![]() What counts is their capacity to replace imports. From the standpoint of the development of the city, Jacobs - without clarifying whether (and how) she believes that different imports have different impacts on economic expansion - argues that whether imported products are of national origin or not makes no difference. Jacobs tries to identify the hurdles which prevent any start being made to the process of replacing imports that occur, or that do not occur, even within states. ![]()
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