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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A collection that offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. It illustrates how image and practice have become entangled in the performance of the symbolic economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
