ABSTRACT

It is a truism that socioeconomic organizations involve primarily mutual interrelations among decision units rather than the conveniently simple one-way impacts and sequential effects that we like to use whenever possible in building explanatory theories. And spatial organization in the urban setting presents this aspect of mutual interdependence of everything on everything to an especially notable degree, precisely because the very raison d'être of a city is that it puts enormous numbers of diverse households, business firms, and other decision units cheek by jowl so that they may interact in fruitful and efficient ways.