... lifestyle. Urban development is defines as 'the physical, social and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipalities and neighbourhoods' (Wikipedia, 2005). The physical change of a city is mainly concerned with the spatial geography of consumption, however it is important to consider the effect that socialities and subjectives have on development, especially socially and economically. Through using the city of Manchester I shall assess the relationship between consumption and urban development through the following development periods of a city: Industrial, Fordist, Post-Fordist, Post-Industrial, Modernism and Post-Modernism. The industrial city emerged during the industrial revolution which was said to be 'The era in which machine power replaced human and animal power in the production process, generally said to have first begun on a large scale in England during the 1600s' (Wikipedia, 2005). It was a result of manufacturing and production focused capitalism and the government were in control of the cities development. Manchester ...

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