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# Territorial Cultivation Completeness

## Definition

The economic condition where all available land within a territory has been brought under cultivation and improvement, removing the natural constraint on urban growth that exists when surrounding lands remain uncultivated. This completeness allows towns to expand beyond local agricultural support to draw subsistence from more distant regions.

## Source Chapter

Book III, Chapter 1

## Context

Smith identifies this as the threshold condition that permits urban development to proceed independently of immediate rural surroundings, explaining how complete territorial cultivation enables more complex patterns of economic development.

## Economic Domain

Production

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