David B Clarke

Consumer Society and the Post-modern City (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134627936
• Artikelnr.: 47888633

Autorenporträt

David B. Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. Consumption 1. Consumption Controversies 2. Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Consumption (But Were Afraid to Ask
Baudrillard) Part 2. Consumption and the City 3. Consumption and the City,
Modern and Postmodern 4. Seduced and Repressed: Collective Consumption
Revisited (with Michael G. Bradford) Part 3. The Consumer Society and the
Postmodern City 5. The Meaning of Lifestyle 6. Minimal Utopia, Notes
References