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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252719903321

Autore

Scott Allen J

Titolo

The Constitution of the City : Economy, Society, and Urbanization in the Capitalist Era / / by Allen J. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-61228-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations, tables, graphs

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Social sciences

Sociology, Urban

Urban geography

Urban economics

Public policy

Popular Social Sciences

Urban Studies/Sociology

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

Urban Economics

Public Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. City and Society -- 2. In Search of the City -- 3. Industrialization and Urbanization of Early Capitalism -- 4. Triumph and Tribulations of the Mass-Production Metropolis -- 5. Cities in a Globalizing World -- 6. The Third Wave -- 7. Mainsprings of Resurgence -- 8. Social Differentiation and Forms of Life -- 9. Through the Kaleidoscope -- 10. The Urban Commonwealth.

Sommario/riassunto

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.  /p>.