ABSTRACT
The growth of large cities has constituted the most remarkable and defining part of our national experience. Essentially, cities concentrate and contain two kinds of relationships: those of production and economic accumulation and those of social interaction and community formation. Though mediating institutions enable cities to intensify relations of accumulation and community, what works in one period can frequently become an impediment. Industrialization organized the size and overall form of cities, and dominated community formation and the integration of immigrant populations into the industrial structure. Much of the post-industrial city's fabric depends on the government; achieving greater responsiveness to the needs of the accumulation process for truly traumatic surgery. At the greatest level of abstraction, lies the process of accumulation itself. The way a society produces and reproduces its means of sustenance has a central bearing on all its other aspects. The chapter presents a way to advance urban development without sacrificing the communities.
