Landscapes of Functional Organization
The more advanced a region's economy, the more highly developed and integrated are its organizational controls. Subsistence economies hunting, gathering, and shifting agriculture were locally based, self-sufficient, small-group ways of life. The earlier chapters make clear that they have nearly everywhere been replaced by more advanced and spatially integrated economies based on secondary, tertiary, and "postindustrial" activities. These newer forms of economic orientation require more concentrated and structured systems of production and a more formal organization of society and territory than any previously experienced. They have inevitably given rise to distinctive urban and political landscapes.
Chapter 11 Urban Systems and Urban Structures
Chapter 12 The Political Ordering of Space
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