Industrialization and urban space

Abstract

These notes, written after the book The Capitalist Imperative. Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth by M. Storper and R. Walker, focus on the relations between industrialization and urban growth. Although the authors comment on several topics that include the processes of industrial growth, the dynamics of technology, its generation and difussion, the labour markets and employment policies, and the new class relations developed in the new context of production, these notes emphasize the relationship between industrial location and the regional and urban development. Urban agglomerations appear as a perfect revalued locus for the development of new production systems within a context of unstable urban hierarchies. Cities and regions are subjected to unpredictable changes due to the expansion of production over space and the spatial differentiation arising from the selective growth of different industries.