Just thought of something else. The Company Town. Picture somewhere set up by a large organisation (a company, trading fleet, group of pirates) that has one industry and everyone works in that. It will have that industry and the support industries around it. In this I include places like Flint, Michigan (car parts), Deerborn (Ford company), Bourneville (the first company town, set up by Cadbury Chocolate to house its workers) and Washington DC, which is a company town in every respect and even has its support industries (car mechanics, doctors, hospitals etc) outside of itself. A medieval analogue of that would be interesting.
There are no better reference work to see the economy of cities than The Economy of Cities and Cities and the Wealth of Nations, both by Jane Jacobs. Worth reading but probably more detailed than you might want for this exercise.
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Date: 2007-12-13 10:46 pm (UTC)There are no better reference work to see the economy of cities than The Economy of Cities and Cities and the Wealth of Nations, both by Jane Jacobs. Worth reading but probably more detailed than you might want for this exercise.