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Autore |
Clarke David B. <1964, > |
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Titolo |
The consumer society and the postmodern city / / David B. Clarke |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-62793-9 |
1-134-62794-7 |
1-280-05039-X |
0-203-41414-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects |
Consumer behavior |
Capitalism |
City and town life - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-256) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Consumption; Consumption controversies; Everything you ever wanted to know about consumption (but were afraid to ask Baudrillard); Consumption and the city; Consumption and the city, modern and postmodern; Seduced and repressed: collective consumption revisited WITH; The consumer society and the postmodern city; The meaning of lifestyle; Minimal utopia; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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