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9780415205146

Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415205146

  • ISBN10:

    041520514X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-07-03
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city.

Author Biography

David B. Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(6)
PART I Consumption
7(64)
Consumption controversies
9(17)
Everything you ever wanted to know about consumption (but were afraid to ask Baudrillard)
26(45)
PART II Consumption and the city
71(56)
Consumption and the city, modern and postmodern
73(23)
Seduced and repressed: collective consumption revisited
96(31)
Michael G. Bradford
PART III The consumer society and the postmodern city
127(69)
The meaning of lifestyle
129(38)
Minimal utopia
167(29)
Notes 196(21)
Bibliography 217(40)
Index 257

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