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The City as an Entertainment Machine: Research in Urban Policy

Autor Terry Nichols Clark
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2003
Do amenities, entertainment and cultural centres promote growth in cities? This, and other questions surrounding gender, technology, consumers and consumption, form the subject matter of this study into the urban landscape as an entertainment machine.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780762310609
ISBN-10: 076231060X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Emerald Publishing
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Cuprins

Introduction: taking entertainment seriously (T. Nichols Clark). A political theory of consumption (T. Nichols Clark). Urban amenities: lakes, opera, and juice bars: do they drive development? (T. Nichols Clark). Globalization and the liminal: transgression, identity and the urban primitive (L. Langman, K. Cangemi). Consumers and cities (E.L. Glaeser et al.). The new political culture and local government in England (A. Bartlett et al.). Technology and tolerance: the importance of diversity to high-technology growth
(R. Florida, G. Gates). Gays and urban development: how are they linked? (T. Nichols Clark). Amenities: recent work mainly by economists (A. Zelenev). The international mayor (T. Nichols Clark et al.). Starbucks, bicycle paths, and urban growth machines: emails among members of urban and community section of American Sociological Association. (Listserve). Amenities drive urban growth: leadership and policy linkages (T. Nichols Clark et al.). List of contributors, biographical sketches.