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Excerpt from The Challenge of Connecticut's Suburban MovementThe Decentralization of Business: One of the somewhat spe cialized aspects of suburbanization in southern New England is the decentralization of businesses, especially the textile and certain other industries that have long existed in the small villages and towns in the rural areas. The citizens of colonial New England tended to group themselves into villages. They would start up a tannery, a gristmill or similar business which could furnish employment full time or part-time for a few families of the locality, while, at the same time, some members of these families would carry on a certain amount of agriculture. With the inauguration of the textile business, the same dispersion continued. This wide-spread tendency toward the dispersion of small non-agricultural businesses into the rural areas, as historically developed and illustrated here in southern New England, is receiving much attention today from men like Borsodi and Ford. Its potential value in producing economic and civic security is great, for we note 'that many small Villages here in southern New England have combined agricultural and non'-agricultural businesses so as to obtain an economic support and a permanency of residence that many other sections of the United States do not enjoy.But, you may ask whether this picture that we have drawn is one of suburbanization. Obviously it cannot be called either urban or rural in the strict sense of these terms. It has an agricultural and open-country or rural village setting, and it also contains many people of urban origin and urban employment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Challenge of Connecticut's Suburban MovementThe Decentralization of Business: One of the somewhat spe cialized aspects of suburbanization in southern New England is the decentralization of businesses, especially the textile and certain other industries that have long existed in the small villages and towns in the rural areas. The citizens of colonial New England tended to group themselves into villages. They would start up a tannery, a gristmill or similar business which could furnish employment full time or part-time for a few families of the locality, while, at the same time, some members of these families would carry on a certain amount of agriculture. With the inauguration of the textile business, the same dispersion continued. This wide-spread tendency toward the dispersion of small non-agricultural businesses into the rural areas, as historically developed and illustrated here in southern New England, is receiving much attention today from men like Borsodi and Ford. Its potential value in producing economic and civic security is great, for we note 'that many small Villages here in southern New England have combined agricultural and non'-agricultural businesses so as to obtain an economic support and a permanency of residence that many other sections of the United States do not enjoy.But, you may ask whether this picture that we have drawn is one of suburbanization. Obviously it cannot be called either urban or rural in the strict sense of these terms. It has an agricultural and open-country or rural village setting, and it also contains many people of urban origin and urban employment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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