ABSTRACT
THIS chapter examines some of the processes which have been ob served within the structure of the city; in some respects these function to maintain the city in its present form, while in others they tend to lead towards social change. The discussion here will be limited to those processes which have conventionally been regarded as ecologi cal; no attempt is made to cover such social processes as socialization, the assimilation of immigrants and culturally diverse groups, social control, social integration, government, communication and seculari zation. These are of course important, but an adequate treatment would be too extensive for the present volume. (One social process, bureaucratization, will be examined in the next chapter.) Finally, this chapter will be limited to industrial cities, since the data on pre industrial cities are too scattered to be readily synthesized. Breese1 has however given a careful analysis of these processes in developing countries, whose cities are making the transition from pre-industrial to industrial, and which currently show some of the characteristics of each.
