Urban Geography: The Stanback Model, Agglomeration, Unions, and the Circuits of Capital

Urban Geography Reflection
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The Stanback Model
The model emphasizes high levels of growth beyond the standard manufacturing processes. Although industries may be meeting the anticipated outcomes in the manufacturing process, they need to go up beyond the expectations to enhance substantial growth. Planning the next generation of public policy requires a clear review of the previous one (Harris & Ullman, 1945). What would change? Why would it change? This consideration ensures the effectiveness and eradication of the entanglements clinging from past mistakes and creating room for any transitions anticipated in the future of urbanization.
The model was implemented in the growth of cities in the United States through three distinct processes. First, the involved committees indulged in deliberations independently of the federal government's executive and legislative arms (Harris & Ullman, 1945). Secondly, the committee did not intend to implement their proposals as part of the already implemented policies or a single-made policy (Harris & Ullman, 1945). Lastly, the committee based almost all recommendations on the fact and belief that urban areas and their economies were on the verge of continuous transition (Harris & Ullman 1945). Therefore, an excellent policy may not be viable in the future, depending on the level of change incurred.
Agglomeration
Agglomeration is the spatial concentration of industrial activities in a relatively small area. The process includes snowballing actions where more manufacturing industries continue clustering to occupy the smallest possible area. The process results in the achievement of agglomeration economies. These aspects are the benefits discovered when various firms and people come near one another in a strategic and one location in cities and industrial clusters, mainly for commercial purposes (Mr. Beat, 2017). For instance, a person selling a particular product with the target population living in the city may have to move and settle in the location because the business cannot bloom and thrive upcountry where the demographic does not need the offered product.
Agglomeration economies include saving on costs such as transport. Although the aspect may have reduced in the current economies, distributing products during the early growth of cities indulged a lot of costs. The people in the industries had to look into appropriate solutions to reduce the costs involved. Agglomeration helps in solving the difficulties incurred in the process of exchanging goods and services. “A secondary role is played by localization economies, in which corporations in the same or related economic sector concentrate in a given metropolitan area, as with the banking industry in New York City,”(Gong & Wheeler, 2007). The clients seeking services will always find it easy to access the corporation they desire over a short period. This aids in eradicating the cost and time incurred while people move in different places, looking at various substitute goods and services.
Primary and secondary circuits of capital
The capitalists’ goal in the development of the cities involved the continuous accumulation ...