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This chapter sets out a broad contextual framework for urban analysis with special reference to three main phases of capitalist development. These are as follows: the nineteenth-century factory and workshop system, twentieth-century mass production, and the emerging twenty-first-century system of cognitive-cultural capitalism.
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Scott, A.J. (2017). City and Society. In: The Constitution of the City. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61228-7_1
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