Scott offers an analysis of the complex interrelationships between metropolitan development in the United States and the and logic and dynamics of the system of economic production: the dispersal of productive activity to suburban and non metropolitan activity to suburban and non metropolitan areas has now become one of the dominant processes shaping the contemporary economic landscape. Scott concludes with a restatement of the developmental logic of the U.S. metropolitan system as a predicament-laden outcome of the logic of labor-processes transformations in capitalism.