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Cities are a major form of the material, social, and symbolic organization of societies. They are persistent and adaptive structures that fulfill a variety of social functionalities: habitat, production, services, political control over people and territories, as well as technical and symbolic mediation between nature and culture, groups and individuals.

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Bretagnolle, A., Pumain, D., Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, C. (2009). The Organization of Urban Systems. In: Lane, D., Pumain, D., van der Leeuw, S.E., West, G. (eds) Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change. Methodos Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9663-1_7

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