1st Edition

Consuming the Entrepreneurial City Image, Memory, Spectacle

Edited By Anne Cronin, Kevin Hetherington Copyright 2008
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the practices through which we know them - from advertising and the selling of real estate, to youth cultural... Read more

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

Biography

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.