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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... involved the attempt to develop ecological approaches to the study of the city such as the concentric ring theory ... involvement, which means that they have discrepant and unstable statuses. Wirth (and Redfield) thus claim that the ...
... involved a sophisticated attempt to theorise this new spatial form (Frobel et al. 1977; Savage and Warde 1993: Ch. 3). It was argued that three factors in particular enable a newly internationalised division of labour to develop. The ...
... involved in the transmission of information (as well as of other signs) transforms nation and place which are necessarily incorporated into a set of globalising processes. Such processes undermine the coherence of individual 'societies ...
... involved more diverse social practices than those of industrial capitalism; and it came to operate on a much wider spatial scale. It should also be noted that there are interesting connections analysed between the emergence of this kind ...
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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 |