10 Mart 2011 Perşembe

Modern and the Postmodern City


Cities exist with humans. And cities have changed since in the past. They must change. Because city should adapt to people. The most important change is industry for the city. First one is Pre Industrial city. It is features: mechanical solidarity, little or no division of labor: undifferentiated social structure, people occupy general positions.homogeneity, social bonds based on common morality,  tradition and religion as the cement of society. These are fundamentals of pre Industrial city. These process prepare the modern city.

Hereafter, modernization started and it was dramatically increase. This term naming : Industrial society or modern times. It is features: Organic solidarity, greater division of labor: differentiated social structure, specialized tasks and responsibilities, heterogeneity, the loosening of the common morality, division of labor as the source of social cohesion. Modern city established Metropolis. The metropolis has got some important responsibility and features. Characteristics of the metropolis:  Mobs, complex social networks, specialization and social differentiation, mutual interdependence and money economy.Traits of life in the Metropolis: Punctuality, calculable, exactness.

And last one is postmodern city. We are living global world. Earth is circular. All of the country have got relations with the others. Because we haven’t got one culture we are multinational.  Innovation and sustainability are main subject for people. And people live city and they do the industry. For this reason people affect the city and industry. These loop and turnover rapidly changing and the world is developing. Change never stops. That is people, city or the other. Change continues.


Important aspects of the Modern and the Postmodern city


*Modern (Fordism)

Industrial manufacturing-based economy

Production

National/ International
Mass production (Ford's)
Monotype (assembly line)
Standardization and hierarchically organized
Mass consumption
Trade unions and collective bargaining agreements(national decisions) are charged with the control and regulation


Business process
The only tasks performed by a single worker.(assembly line model)
Separation of small parts of jobs that require expertise. And dividing the work more
Vertical business organization
The degree of quality and gender differences


State
Regulatory and interfere
Collective agreements (For example; wage bargaining - income policies)
Central planning (national, regional and at the local level)


Ideology
Welfare (The state must provide its citizens)
Scientific research / evidence-based rational planning
Mass consumption


Area
Suburban city in the against (dual point of view of the city)
Planning and segregation (zoning)
Separation of housing and business activity



*Postmodern (Flexibility)

Knowledge-based economy

Production

Global, transnational
Small-scale production, full-time transactions
Flexible processes
On demand, market-oriented consumption
Total quality management (worker participation)
Contract between the individual and the workplace


Business process
Multi-faceted tasks
Flexible working hours and wage agreement
Business and the contracts and national decisions instead of individual contracts.
Horizontal business organization
Central-peripheral workers as the new division


State
Transient model of the actions of state regulatory powers to non-slip model
Neo - liberal - privatization
Competition


Ideology
Individualism
Entrepreneurship
Competition
Individual ''life style'' consumption and exhibition


Area
Dualism became uncertainty - urbanization of suburbs, revaluation of the inner parts of the city.
Edge / regional centers / the development of hypermarkets


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