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Start by pressing the button below! Author: Anne M. Cronin Kevin Hetherington. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the practices through which we know themβfrom advertising and the selling of real estate, to youth cultural consumption practices and forms of entrepreneurship, to the regeneration of urban areas under the guise of the heritage industry and the development of a WiFi landscape.
Using examples of cities such as New York, Sydney, Atlantic City, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Douala, Liverpool, San Juan, Berlin, and Harbin, this book illustrates how image and practice have become entangled in the performance of the symbolic economy. It also argues not just that it is how the urban present is being shaped in this way that is significant to the development of cities but also that a prominent feature of their development has been the spectacular imagining of the past as heritage and through regeneration.
Yet the ghosts that this conjures up in practice offer us a possible form of political unsettlement and alternative ways of viewing cities that are only just beginning to be explored. Through this important collection by some of the leading analysts of consumption, cities, and space, Consuming the Entrepreneurial City offers a cutting-edge analysis of the ways in which cities are developing and the implications this has for their future.
Anne M. He has published widely on issues of spatiality and consumption. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
