Schafran, A;
McDonald, C;
Lopez Morales, E;
Akyelken, N;
Acuto, M;
(2018)
Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: urbanization and control as economic sectors.
Regional Studies
, 52
(12)
pp. 1708-1719.
10.1080/00343404.2018.1464136.
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Abstract
Developed during the Second World War, ‘three-sector theory’ popularized the notion of the ‘services’ sector. It has quietly underpinned understandings of economic structure ever since. The limitations and influence of this basic breakdown have led to many critiques and extensions, but no replacements. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution (1968), we develop a four-sector model that replaces services with sectors focused on urbanization and control. We argue that this model is a better reflection of material economic life, and a more useful way of approaching the 21st-century economy. It also offers scholars of urbanization and regional development a creative new way of seeing urbanization.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: urbanization and control as economic sectors |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00343404.2018.1464136 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2018.1464136 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | urbanization, Henri Lefebvre, economic structure, economic sectors, industrial economics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10051708 |
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