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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... example do not have a sense of time as a resource. Time is not viewed as something that passes, that can be wasted, that can be saved (Evans-Pritchard 1940). Where there are expressions of time, these take place by reference to social ...
... example, gentrification. Other city areas can be much more suburban, where the focus of activity is the home and where the main forms of activity are car-based. In such cases it is the forms of TIME AND SPACE IN THE CONSUMPTION OF PLACE.
... example (see Hetherington 1990). It is clear that the spatial concepts of size, density and heterogeneity do not explain how and why places develop different Bund-like patterns of social and cultural life. In the next section I will ...
... example, sustaining much lower housing densities in richer areas. It was argued that many services, especially housing, are not necessarily provided 'collectively' and can and should be privatised and individualised; that services are ...
... example, zoned both spatially and temporally. Second, there is the concept of presence-availability, the degree to which, and the forms through which, people are co-present within an individual's social milieu. Communities of high ...
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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 |