[44]. L. C. A. Knowles, The Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century (1921), p. 216.
[45]. See Gillette, Rural Sociology (1922), pp. 472–73.
[46]. For a good statistical summary of the decline in village population in the United States from 1900 to 1920 see Gillette, op. cit. (1922), p. 465.
[47]. Warren H. Wilson, “Quaker Hill,” quoted in Sims, Rural Community, p. 214.
[48]. In actual count of some thirty-odd communities in and around Seattle this was about the sequence of development.
[49]. The axial or skeletal structure of civilization, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Pacific, is the ocean around which it grows up. See Ramsay Traquair, “The Commonwealth of the Atlantic,” Atlantic Monthly, May, 1924.
[50]. Compare F. E. Clements, Plant Succession, p. 6.
[51]. For good discussions of the effect of new forms of transportation upon communal structure see McMichael and Bingham, City Growth and Values (1923), chap. iv; also Grupp, Economics of Motor Transportation (1924), chap. ii.
[52]. By actual count in the city of Seattle over 80 per cent of the disorderly houses recorded in police records are obsolete buildings located near the downtown business section where land values are high and new uses are in process of establishment.
[53]. A term used by members of the Department of Sociology in the University of Chicago.