Consuming cities / Steven Miles and Malcolm Miles.

By:

Miles, Steven [author.]

Contributor(s):

Miles, Malcolm [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Description: vi, 209 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0333977092
9780333977095
0333977106
9780333977101

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 22

LOC classification:

HT119 .M54 2004

Contents:

1. Provide or divide? -- 2. Consuming the past : cities, shopping and supermarkets -- 3. Consuming cultures : the symbolic economies of cities -- 4. Consuming place : cities and cultural tourism -- 5. Consuming space : the architectures of consumption -- 6. Consuming chance : the gambling city -- 7. Reinventing the consuming city -- 8. Alternative consumption -- 9. Conclusion : the "consumed" city.

Summary: "Consuming Cities explores patterns of consumption and culture in contemporary urban environments, bringing together debates taking place in sociology and cultural studies. It is written with a broad interdisciplinary readership in mind. The book is thematically organized and draws on an international range of urban case studies from around the world. It critically assesses the impact of consumption on the economies, social structures, geographies and cultures of the cities it discusses and on cities in general. This is a definitive resource for the study of contemporary urban consumption and culture, synthesizing a diverse and contested literature."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index.

"Consuming Cities explores patterns of consumption and culture in contemporary urban environments, bringing together debates taking place in sociology and cultural studies. It is written with a broad interdisciplinary readership in mind. The book is thematically organized and draws on an international range of urban case studies from around the world. It critically assesses the impact of consumption on the economies, social structures, geographies and cultures of the cities it discusses and on cities in general. This is a definitive resource for the study of contemporary urban consumption and culture, synthesizing a diverse and contested literature."--Publisher description.

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