The production of cities
Abstract
The blatant deformation of urban development since the industrial revolution, has been the unequivocal product of social conditions: private ownership of land; real estate speculation; systematic subordinization of town planning to the ‘growth sectors’ of private industry; general underdevelopment of socialized services. These societal conditions, far from being suspended or neutralized by any technical logic, in their turn determine technological underdevelopment — for example, the backwardness of the industrial methods in the construction industry - and aberrant development (high rise blocks, dormitory cities and so on). 1
Fields of Study & Subjects
Global Urban Networks and Dynamics
Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 15–48
- Publication date
- 9 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter