Consumo, ciudad y globalizacion

Abstract

Consumption is the basis of economic development and, therefore, of social progress as well. Human primary needs are its starting point, later on complicated and enlarged by cultural development. Consumption and its results, trade and social exchange, find their main instrument in the city, both in its origin as in its subsequent evolutive stages with differences in time, space and society. Spain is a clear example even though its mass consumption has been delaayed. Consumption as well as the city and the cultural and economic means are nowadays affected by Man's increasing 'globalization'.