Consuming the Entrepreneurial City (eBook, ePUB)

Image, Memory, Spectacle
Redaktion: Cronin, Anne; Hetherington, Kevin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through this important collection of articles by some of the leading analysts of consumption, cities and space Consuming the Entrepreneurial City offers a cutting-edge analysis of the ways in which cities are developing and the implications this has for their future. It is essential reading for students of urban studies, geography, sociology, cultural studies, heritage studies and anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135917159
• Artikelnr.: 41505917

Autorenporträt

Anne M. Cronin is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology department at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of Advertising and Consumer Citizenship and Advertising Myths. Kevin Hetherington is Professor of Geography at The Open University, UK. He has published widely on issues of spatiality and consumption. His most recent book with Routledge is Capitalism's Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Marketing the City in Crisis 2. Home Alone: Selling New Domestic Spaces
3. Urban Space and Entrepreneurial Relations 4. Stars, Meshes, Grids: Urban
Network-Images and the Embodiment of Wireless Infrastructures 5. Always
Turned on: Atlantic City as America's Accursed Share 6. The Ruins of the
Future: On Urban Transience and Durability 7. Just Another Coffee! Milking
the Barcelona Model, Marketing a Global Image, and the Resistance of Local
Identities 8. Broken Links, Changing Speeds, Spatial Multiples: Rewiring
Douala 9. Consuming the Night: Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Youth
Culture 10. Contesting the Night as a Space for Consumption in Old San
Juan, Puerto Rico 11. "The Atmosphere of a Foreign Country": Harbin's
Architectural Inheritance 12. Liverpool's Rialto: A Ghost in the City of
Culture