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'Critically assess the relationship between the growth of consumer culture and urban development in one city of your choice.' Consumer culture is related to the process of consumerism, which is defined as 'a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption' (Wikipedia, 2005). Consumption is defined as 'The purchase and utilization of goods and services' (Knox and Pinch, 1982) and the three main geographical themes surrounding the geography of consumption are: spatialities, socialities and subjectives (Miles and Miles). Within this broad depth of classifying consumption it is possible to identify that consumption is not just related to the manufactured goods that are sold , but also to services, knowledge and ideas and it is now commonly accepted that places, shopping, eating, fashion, leisure and recreation are all things that can be 'consumed' (Jayne, 2005). The key issue in the relationship beween consumption and...

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