Consuming PlacesRoutledge, 2002 M03 11 - 272 páginas John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and the concept of the 'rural', are examined in relationship to place. The book then considers how places have been transformed by the development of service occupations and industries. Concepts of the service class and post-industrialism are theoretically and empirically discussed. Attention is then devoted to the ways in which places are consumed. Particular attention is devoted to the visual character of such consumption and its implications for place and people. The implications for nature and the environment are also explored in depth. The changing nature of consumption, and the tensions between commodification and collective enthusiasms, are explored in the context of the changing ways in which the countryside is consumed. |
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... activities based on cyclical ecological changes. Those periods devoid of significant social activity are passed over without reference to time. It has also been noted that while most societies have some form of 'week' this may consist ...
... activities spatially 'framed'; the degree to which social interactions may be localised in space; the degree of proximity/distance especially in the city and the role of the sense of sight; and the possibility of changing locations and ...
... activities and relationships; and in the specific sense that people have to schedule activities in precise ways and that there needs to ... activity are car-based. In such cases it is the forms of TIME AND SPACE IN THE CONSUMPTION OF PLACE.
... of the historical concentration of the labour force within urban areas; and second, because there has been a longterm tendency for these activities to be unprofitable when provided by 11 TIME AND SPACE IN THE CONSUMPTION OF PLACE.
... activities is not to be regarded as determined by the social structure; and that the urban is in fact also crucially affected by changing relations of production, not just of collective consumption (Castells 1977, 1978, 1983; Dunleavy ...
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SOME VICES AND VIRTUES | 33 |
SOCIETY SPACE AND LOCALITY | 63 |
RESTRUCTURING THE RURAL | 77 |
CAPITALIST PRODUCTION SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT | 90 |
IS BRITAIN THE FIRSTPOSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY? | 112 |
THE CONSUMPTION OF TOURISM | 129 |
TOURISM TRAVEL AND THE MODERN SUBJECT | 141 |
REINTERPRETING LOCAL CULTURE | 152 |
TOURISM EUROPE AND IDENTITY | 163 |
THE TOURIST GAZE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 173 |
THE MAKING OF THE LAKE DISTRICT | 193 |
SOCIAL IDENTITY LEISURE AND THE COUNTRYSIDE | 211 |