EAN: 9783319612270

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CITY - ALLEN J SCOTT KA...

This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities. The author
recounts how the essential foundations of the urbanization process reside in two interrelated
forces. These are the tendency for many different kinds of human activity to gather together to
form functional complexes on the landscape  and the multifaceted intra-urban space-sorting
crosscurrents set in motion by this primary urge. From these basic points of departure  the
city in all its fullness emerges as a reflexive moment in social and economic development. The
argument of the book is pursued both in theoretical and in empirical terms  devoting attention
to the changing character of urbanization in the capitalist era. A point of particular emphasis
concerns the peculiar patterns of resurgent urbanization that are making their historical and
geographical appearance in the currently emerging phase of cognitive-cultural capitalism and
that are now rapidly diffusing across the globe.

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