TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miles,Steven
AU  - Miles,Malcolm
TI  - Consuming cities
SN  - 0333977092
AV  - HT119 .M54 2004
U1  - 307.76 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Material culture
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Sociology, Urban
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -