Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power

by Chatterton,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415283465
• ISBN10: 0415283469
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-06-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In many western cities, urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldization', where big branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an increasingly standardized experience.Urban Nightscapestakes a new look at this rapidly changing aspect of urban life, examining the relationships between young adults, nightlife and city spaces. It focuses on what the authors call 'urban nightscapes' - youthful and playful cultural activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues, which occur against a backdrop of increasing corporate influence in the night-time economy.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
1 Introduction: making urban nightscapes	1	(16)
PART I Understanding nightlife processes and spaces: producing, regulating and consuming urban nightscapes	17	(74)
2 Producing nightlife: corporatisation, branding and market segmentation in the urban entertainment economy	19	(26)
3 Regulating nightlife: profit, fun and (dis)order	45	(23)
4 Consuming nightlife: youth cultural identities, transitions and lifestyle divisions	68	(23)
PART II Urban nightlife stories: experiencing mainstream, residual and alternative spaces	91	(152)
5 Pleasure, profit and youth in the corporate playground: branding and gentrification in mainstream nightlife	93	(33)
6 Selling nightlife in studentland	126	(22)
7 Sexing the mainstream: young women and gay cultures in the night	148	(27)
8 Residual youth nightlife: community, tradition and social exclusion	175	(27)
9 'You've gotta fight for your right to party' : alternative nightlife on the margins	202	(30)
10 Urban nightscape visions: beyond the corporate nightlife machine	232	(11)
Notes	243	(4)
References	247	(25)
Index	272