Housing-Settlement Types, Arrangements for Living, Proletarianization, and the Social Structure of the City

As one scans the literature on cities from various disciplines, one observes that they [cities] tend to be conceived, as in architecture and urban planning, as physical entities and apparatus (buildings, open spaces, sewage systems ... ), or, as among the social science disciplines, as stage sets or backgrounds in front of which various categories of behavior ... (kinship, migration, political behavior ... ) are to be observed