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The Organization of Urban Systems

  • Bretagnolle A
  • Pumain D
  • Vacchiani-Marcuzzo C
Springer Netherlands, (2009), 197-220
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9663-1_7
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Abstract

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 Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change (pp. 197–220). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9663-1_7

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