What makes a city.pdf

extracted text: the provinces, the judge said the likelihood is that they would all be elected to the convention, should the pro posed amendment be ap proved. Thus, he said, the calling of such constitutional con vention would be a "pure waste of multi-million pesos of public funds.” Congress might as well approve the necessary constitutional amendments by resolution of both houses, thereby obviat ing the necessity of a con vention for the same pur pose, the judge pointed out. — Vic Foz in Manila Times, Sept. 27, 1967. WHAT MAKES A CITY Population, industry, commerce, and agriculture must reach a high stage of development and pro duction at and around a community to make it a city. The modern city is a complicated affair. At times it is “a large body of people living in a re latively small area.” A comprehensive definition of the modern city must indicate that it is a social, political, legal and economic unit all rolled into one. It is a concentrated body of population possessing some significant social characteristics, chartered as a municipal corporation, having its own system of local government carrying on multifarious economic enter prises and pursuing an elaborate program of social adjustment and amelioration. — By Prof. William B. Munro, article on City, 3 Encyclopedia of Social Sciences (Macmillan, N.Y.) 12 Panorama
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