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Consuming the Entrepreneurial City - Image, Memory, Spectacle (Paperback)
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Consuming the Entrepreneurial City - Image, Memory, Spectacle (Paperback)
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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 consumption practices and forms of entrepreneurship,
to the regeneration of urban areas under the guise of the heritage
industry and the development of a WiFi landscape. Using examples of
cities such as New York, Sydney, Atlantic City, Barcelona, Rio de
Janeiro, Douala, Liverpool, San Juan, Berlin and Harbin, this book
illustrates how image and practice have become entangled in the
performance of the symbolic economy.It also argues that it is not
just how the urban present is being shaped in this way that is
significant to the development of cities but also that a prominent
feature of their development has been the spectacular imagining of
the past as heritage and through regeneration. Yet the ghosts that
this conjures up in practice offer us a possible form of political
unsettlement and alternative ways of viewing cities that is only
just beginning to be explored. Through this important collection 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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