Week 2 Lefebvre and Delanda

Delanda talks about how cities first started to grow on a large scale due to innovations in farming and he says that growth was not matched in until nearly 500 years later with the introduction of fossil fuels. With all of the innovations of the last century and constant innovations, is the rate still as large as it used to be or even larger? or have the newest innovations in the world not had a big an impact as farming and harvesting fossil fuels.

He also talks about how monopolisation has always existed but just in different forms. whereas now companies try to monopolise certain areas of the trading market, in the past whole cities where monopolising other cities. By only dealing with 'friendly' cities the were keeping the money circulating within their walls, which helped to aid their growth. I think this touches on Lefebvres text when he talks about the political and mercantile city.