A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT (I)
A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT (I)

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the distinction between pre-industrial and industrial cities. The main reasons due to which the pre-industrial city has not known a significant growth are: the total dependence on gross force, its specific subsistence economy, the difficulties with the transport and storage of products, the migration phenomenon and dangers imposed by urban life. Another analysis was carried out by Ferdinand Tönnies, who operates a fundamental distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Industrial city gives birth to new statuses and to a new social class. Postindustrial city is that kind of city where global finance and electronic information dominates the economic field.

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