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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... culture and to have made the Department an unusually creative kind of place. This book is about some other makings of place. John Urry Lancaster April 1994 VII 1 TIME AND SPACE IN THE CONSUMPTION OF PLACE INTRODUCTION. PREFACE.
... kind of human association implying personal ties, a sense of belonging and warmth. Bell and Newby point out that the last of these is not necessarily produced by any particular settlement type and indeed it could also result from a ...
... kind of community which people choose to join and can leave, is an important additional notion. Cities and rural areas differ in their capacity to generate a wide array of Bund-like associations. Some urban areas have particularly ...
... kind of class politics. Thus he argues strongly against efforts to understand the urban in terms of either 'culture'/' way of life' or in terms of a spatial determinism. Cities have become centres of new kinds of politics because of ...
... kind of liminoid space where some of the rules and restrictions of routine life are relaxed and replaced by different norms of behaviour, in particular those appropriate to being in the company of strangers. This may entail new and ...
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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 |