The Constitution of the City (Softcover)

Name: The Constitution of the City
Author: Allen J. Scott

Economy, Society, and Urbanization in the Capitalist Era

von Allen J. Scott Verlag: Springer International Publishing

1st ed. 2017 - Erschienen 17.08.2017 - Kartoniert, 268 Seiten, 210mm x 148mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng

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Develops a broad conceptual account of urbanizationReveals the deeply-rooted mutations of capitalism in the twenty-first century and their effects on the form and functions of citiesOffers widely-ranging historical and geographical illustrations of the main theoretical arguments

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.

Allen J. Scott is Distinguished Research Professor of Geography and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Allen J. Scott is Distinguished Research Professor of Geography and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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