Metropolis : From the division of labor to urban form

Dublin Core

How do cities develop and grow within the production system of modern capitalism? What forces govern the internal and external organization of their economies? How is the intraurban geography of production arranged, and how does it change through time? How is the labor of the citizenry mobilized over the urban system and deployed in productive work? What impacts does the economy have on the structure of urban life? Conversely, what influence does urban life have on the structure of local economic activity? These questions are not arbitrary. They represent preliminary windows onto a theoretical problematic of industrialization and urbanization whose outlines and substance will be discussed at length in this book, and they have important consequences for the ways in which we set about the tasks of understanding the modern metropolis.