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

• Main Author: Scott, Allen J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Public policy.; Urban geography.; Social sciences.; Urban economics.; Sociology, Urban.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319612287
• Physical Description: XIII, 251 p. online resource.

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 co...