Overview
- Develops a broad conceptual account of urbanization
- Reveals the deeply-rooted mutations of capitalism in the twenty-first century and their effects on the form and functions of cities
- Offers widely-ranging historical and geographical illustrations of the main theoretical arguments
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Constitution of the City
Book Subtitle: Economy, Society, and Urbanization in the Capitalist Era
Authors: Allen J. Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61228-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61227-0Published: 17 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61228-7Published: 01 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 251
Topics: Popular Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Economics, Public Policy