Urban health and urban morbidity: the effect of the chaos of the means of production on the capitalist city

Abstract

The capitalist city is drawn with private pens, whose appropriation lines describe a chaos of the means of production. In built capitalism, chaos not only allows the allocation of material spaces to each productive activity under the principles of "production, distribution and accumulation", but also the urban morphology of extraction of surplus value or rent is re-signified into "extraction/contamination and fragmentation/destruction”, considering environmental and human health only externally. Therefore, to critically discuss the functioning of the city, the theoretical category chaos of the means of production is proposed, assuming that urban morbidity is a predetermined condition of the capitalist city that grants it the status of fundamental for its reproduction.

capitalist city; urban health; urban morbidity; chaos; means of production