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1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Re-materialising cultural geography |
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Re-materialising cultural geography.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning; Part I: Revealing Fascination: Theoretical Horizons; 2 The Urban Question after Modernity; 3 The City is Back (in Our Minds); 4 Emotions in an Urban Environment: Embellishing the Cities from the Perspective of the Humanities; 5 Aesthetics and Design: Perceptions in the Postmodern Periphery; Part II: Focusing Fascination: Crossing Theoretical and Empirical Perpectives; 6 'The Most Dangerous Knack': Fetish and Fascination in the Built Environment |
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7 The Urban Staging of Politics: Life Worlds, Aesthetics, and Planning -- and an Example from BrazilPart III: Implementing Fascination: Case Studies; 8 From Dreamland to Wasteland: The Discursive Structuring of Cities; 9 Re-designing the Metropolis: Purpose and Perception of the Ruhr District as European Capital of Culture 2010; 10 Strategic Staging of Urbanity: Urban Images in Films and Film Images in Hamburg's City Marketing; 11 'Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics': Consumer Pedagogy in Macao; Part IV: Consequences of Fascination: New Horizons; 12 Excess, Fascination and Climates |
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Index |
| Summary |
In the course of economic and cultural globalization, most large cities have been transformed via increasing commercialisation of urban space, and consequent intense processes of theming. Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book examines links |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban.
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Cities and towns.
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City and town life.
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Urbanization.
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City planning.
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Cities
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Urbanization
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urban sociology.
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cities.
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urbanization.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Cities and towns
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City and town life
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City planning
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Sociology, Urban
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Urbanization
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmid, Heiko
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Sahr, Wolf-Dietrich
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Urry, John
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| ISBN |
9781409418542 |
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1409418545 |
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