ABSTRACT
Economic activities in cities, like those in capitalist society as a whole, may be broadly divided into two groups. The first contains activities pr imarily associated with the production of commodities for profit, including not only the production of capital goods (such as semi-finished products), wage goods (those consumed as final demand), and buildings, but also the various producer services which make the co-ordination of production possible. The second contains activities primarily associated with the consumption of commodities by households: housing, transportation, and other goods necessary for the social reproduction of households within the city, and the various institutions which influence and organize consumption behaviour. The topic of this chapter is the former: the location of commodity production.
