The woes of the cities almost certainly are insoluble. therefore. so long as they continue to import poverty on an unlimited basis. Their only apparent hope of salvation is. first of all. to halt the stream of migration and then. eventually. to reverse the flow. There is more than a suggestion that the continuing inflow of rural migrants. ill prepared for living and working in urban areas. contributes to the problems of those areas. perhaps actually prevents the attempted solutions ever catching up with the growing problems. More of us now think that remedial attention to urban problems. if it is ever to be successful. must involve the ruralroot areas as well as the urbanclimax areas. Not without some justification. some observers have considered that recent city riots have focused new attention on rural problems and have made it imperative to develop new rural opportunities which will slow the migration. or actually reverse it.
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Rural migrants are ill-prepared for urban life and contribute to urban problems.