GGR124H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Urban Area, Labour Power
18 Jun 2016
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Assumes most expensive land is located closest to city center. Marxist accounts of city: urban space is a collective consumption and region is space of production. 3. 2 urbanization and the regional dynamics of the production system. Urban development drives global economic growth, no other way around. Capitalism = system that exploits social relationships: wealthy classes profit from labour power of poor classes, ability to accumulate capital under capitalism involves production process + social relations of waged labour. Industrial cities economic success from being able to specialize in producing certain products: use efficient production methods/labour processes. Areas of undeveloped land targeted for capitalist development. Brownfield site = industrial area of land that has been abandoned. 1st decade of twentieth century: new system of mass production: henry ford. System of mass production adopted by ford company. Shaped urban development by linking mass production to mass consumption. Working class could afford to buy cars.
