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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... processes; and spatial proximity. Existing formulations are unsatisfactory because they only focus upon one of these. Pickvance further argues that Castells' model ignores some centrally significant contextual factors: rapid ...
... process of certain industrial products which enable the organisational and spatial separation of 'conception' and 'execution'. Third, there are developments in communications technology, especially the telephone line and the computer ...
... processes undermine the coherence of individual 'societies'. The instantaneity of time transforms space and the ... process particularly marked in the USA. An appropriate theory would have to explain the relationship between the flows of ...
... processes more fully, Giddens also draws upon the work of 'time-geography' (see Gregory 1985). Giddens develops a battery of concepts by which to think through just how the life processes of individuals, including their daily, weekly ...
... process, quantity and quality, form and content, subject and object and so on. In such a notion of time it seems that the great edifices of science would all appear to work equally well with time running in reverse. Four scientific ...
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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 |