The Constitution of the City: Economy, Society, and Urbanization in the Capitalist Era

by Allen J. Scott

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319612271
• ISBN13: 9783319612270
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"