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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783972303321

Autore

Clarke David B. <1964, >

Titolo

The consumer society and the postmodern city / / David B. Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-62793-9

1-134-62794-7

1-280-05039-X

0-203-41414-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/09173/2090511

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Consumer behavior

Capitalism

City and town life - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.