Consuming the entrepreneurial city : image, memory, spectacle / edited by Anne M. Cronin and Kevin Hetherington.
"This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the p...
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Table of Contents:
- Marketing the city in crisis : branding and restructuring New York City in the 1970s and the post-9/11 era / Miriam Greenberg
- Home alone : selling new domestic spaces / Justine Lloyd
- Urban space and entrepreneurial property relations : resistance and the vernacular of outdoor advertising and graffiti / Anne M. Cronin
- Stars, meshes, grids : urban network-images and the embodiment of wireless infrastructures / Adrian Mackenzie
- Always turned on : Atlantic City as America's accursed share / Mimi Sheller
- The ruins of the future : on urban transcience and durability / David B. Clarke
- Just another coffee! Milking the Barcelona model, marketing a global image, and the resistance of local identities / Antonio Luna-Garcia
- Broken links, changing speeds, spatial multiples : rewiring Douala / AbdouMaliq Simone
- Consuming the night : space and subjectivity in contemporary youth culture / Maria Isabel Mendes de Almeida
- Contesting the night as a space for consumption in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico / Patria Román-Velázquez
- "The atmosphere of a foreign country" : Harbin's architectural inheritance / Yukiko Koga
- Liverpool's Rialto : a ghost in the city of culture / Glen McIver
- The time of the entrepreneurial city : museum, heritage, and Kairos / Kevin Hetherington.