phrase—“places that tend to come clustered with other towns, places that are circumscribed in some way, and places that have a dynamic relationship to a latifundian periphery.” Arguably, each of these descriptors has a component of density but—even aggregated—none of them truly offers a sufficient definition of either a city or of the urban.
Wading through the fuzzy and inevitable tautologies of these descriptions, some consistency emerges: the city is a function of size, limits, governance, hierarchy, and crowding. Of these elements, “crowding” would seem to be the most potentially nuanced, the best candidate for further examination of the special qualities of the urban. However, before investigating the ramifications for urbanism of this notion of density, it is important to be clear about the reasons for inquiry, and why the mere thickening of settlement is an insufficient conceptual instrument with which to practice urbanism.
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