"Business Elites & Urban Development" ( Scott Cummings )

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" In The Social Production of Urban Space Gottdiener argues that prevailing approaches to the study of urban areas have not adjusted to the emergence of a new model, the "polynucleated metropolitan region" (p. 7). It is Gottdiener's goal to produce a conceptual means of analyzing the production of space that is based on materialism. To this end he synthesizes various strands of marxian analysis to produce an analysis based on the notion that "spatial and social relations are dialectically related" (23). Employing this idea, Gottdiener analyzes the present version of settlement space of which the unique feature is socio-spatial organization restructured by "the combined efforts of Late Capitalist social process and the spatial process of deconcentration" (p. 23). The essence of his critique is displayed very effectively in his analysis of metropolitan.."

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