METROPOLIZATION

THE REPRODUCTION OF THE URBAN WITHIN THE LABOR SOCIETY CRISIS

Abstract

The formation of a metropolis is considered in the logical unfolding of the processes that interest society’s urbanization. One can verify that the physical and normative inability of the city to properly and functionally respond to the processes of concentration and centralization explains the formation of an urban fabric that proliferates in all directions and senses. The result of this is that the notions of city, neighborhood and metropolis correspond to the temporal circumstances of history, the metropolis being the converging point of the city’s implosion and explosion process. Consequently, social reproduction, while the reproduction of the urban, expresses a fragmented spatiality which shapes the territories of uses (ghettos).