Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-Industrial City

by Steven Miles

Book Overview

This book offers an in-depth and sophisticated analysis of the processes that underpin the commodification of the city and explains the physical manifestation of consumerism as a way of life. Engaging directly with the social, economic, and cultural processes that have resulted in our cities being defined through consumption, this vibrant book clearly demonstrates the ways in which consumption has come to play a key role in the reinvention of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412946654
• ISBN13: 9781412946650
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"