![]() The concept of an urban “community” “appears as a general phenomenon only in the Occident” (p. Weber states that the “city” neither in the economic structure nor in the garrison form can be automatically considered a “community”. In different time periods, there were warrior cities and also commercial cities. In the first stage of development, the fortified city was formulated as a political entity dependent on a castle. For example, in China, all cities were surrounded with a ring of walls. ![]() He also mentions the fluidity from semi-rural cities to more developed consumer, producer, or commercial cities.Īnother type of city in the past was the fortress or garrison at the present time, this type of a city does not exist. 74) highlighting not only an economic purpose but political management of the city. Weber suggests this led to concepts such as “urban economic area”, “urban area” and “urban authority” (p. 73) that strived to stabilise the local urban economy by “economic regulations in the interest of permanently and cheaply feeding the masses and standardising the economic opportunities of tradesmen and merchants” (p. In addition to housing, a city should have a budget (revenue and expenses) as well as regulations for management by association. Today, an urbanite can be considered a person who cannot meet his food requirements from his own land. In the past, an urbanite had access to land upon which he could grow crops and feed himself, “the full urbanite of antiquity was a semi-peasant” (71). The relationship of the City to agriculture is not very clear. Weber details different types of consumer and producer cities (prince cities, trade / merchant cities, producer cities). 66) be considered as important, either in the presence of a feudal estate or a market where a regular exchange of goods can occur. Weber suggests that economic “versatility of practiced trades” (p. A city is a settlement where economically, the inhabitants live from trade and commerce instead of from agriculture. ![]() Weber proposes there are many definitions of the city but they have only one component in common, that the city is a “collection of one or more separate dwellings that are in a closed settlement” (p. The chapter titled ‘The Nature of the City’ provides a historical overview of how the concept of the city has evolved over time. Max Weber provided a definition of the city. In 1924, it was incorporated into a book, titled Economy and Society. ![]() Weber’s most important ideas on the city and city culture are found in The City (1921), which was based on the materials he developed from 1889 and was written between 19. ‘The Nature of the City’ is the first chapter in the book The City wirtten by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist. and Neuwirth, G.) Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press. (1958) ‘The Nature of the City’, in Weber, M. ![]()
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