ABSTRACT
The hierarchical structure of bureaucratic organizations is paralleled by a geographical dimension based on the territorial distribution of human settlements. 1 If the social organization resulting from the division of labor cannot be reduced to a simplified stratigraphic image, neither can the residential patterns of the social bloc, the neighborhood, and the local community—the constituent elements of the metropolis—be summarized by a neat and simplified cartographic map with easily discernible, precise, and comprehensive boundaries. Industrial society, as has been stressed, separates work and residence; advanced industrial society increases this separation.
