Consuming the entrepreneurial city : image, memory, spectacle / edited by Anne M. Cronin and Kevin Hetherington

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Publication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 305 p. ilISBN:

9780415955195

Summary: 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 NewYork, 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 not just that it is 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 pastas 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 are 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. (Font: Editor)

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Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00155	1	Available		1900146669

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Sharon Zukin -- Introduction / Kevin Hetherington, Anne M. Cronin -- 1. Marketing the city in crisis: branding and restructuring New York City in the 1970s and the post-9/11 era / Miriam Greenberg -- 2. Home alone : selling new domestic spaces / Justine Lloyd -- 3. Urban space and entrepreneurial property relations : resistance and the vernacular of outdoor advertising and graffiti / Anne M. Cronin -- 4. Stars, meshes, grids : urban network-images and the embodiment of wireless infrastructures / Adrian Mackenzie -- 5. Always turned on : Atlantic City as America's accursed share / Mimi Sheller -- 6. The ruins of the future : on urban transience and durability / David B. Clarke -- 7. Just another coffe! Milking the Barcelona model, marketing a global image, and the resistence of local identities / Antonio Luna-Garcia -- 8. Broken links, changing speeds, spatial multiples : rewiring Douala / AbdouMaliq Simone -- 9. Consuming the night : space and subjectivity in contemporany youth culture / Maria Isabel Mendes de Almeida -- 10. Contesting the night as a space for consumption in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico / Patria Román-Velázquez -- 11. "The atmosphere of a foreign country" : Harbin's Architectural Inheritance / Yukiko Koga -- 12. Liverpool's Rialto : a ghost in the city of culture / Glen McIver -- 13. The time of the entrepreneurial city : museum, heritage, and Kairos / Kevin Hetherington -- Contributors -- Picture credits -- Index

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