The hundred cities term names a class-split urban pattern in latifundia zones

Evidence

Gramsci defines the “hundred cities” (on PP. p. 98) as “the agglomeration into burgs (cities) of the rural bourgeoisie, and the agglomeration into peasant villages [borgate ] of great masses of agricultural labourers and landless peasants in areas where extensive latifundia exist (Puglie, Sicily)”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1976

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci defines the ‘hundred cities’ as the spatial expression of rural class division in latifundia regions.