The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym.
The Third World contains both economic and political meanings. In political view, it stands for those initially non-aligned states (which eventually became client states which are economically, politically, or militarily lower in rank to another stronger …show more content…
It agrees Rostow’s stages of economic growth model that cities (especially primate cities) are the key for development as innovation will be spread over in society. One of the examples happened in Japan during 1860s, when the Meiji period began, the new leadership terminated feudalism and transformed an isolated and underdeveloped country into a world power (proved during Second World War) which closely accompanied Western models (Hall …show more content…
It provides the impact of global capitalism on national urban systems in the Third World. As ‘cityward’ migration increases due to commercial agriculture, the surplus extraction in rural area by national bourgeois groups and foreign companies in main urban centres which causes the expansion of main transportation and market centres, national capital and main ports. Production then concentrates in the largest cities which attract high-income groups and encourage the process of industrialisation. Labours move for opportunities and the capitalist sector starts to expand, the state supports such an expansion by providing infrastructure in the main urban centres. As metropolitan development accelerates, the private capital begins to decentralise to areas within the metropolitan region but outside the main city to reduce increased costs (e.g. labour, land, traffic congestion and