Urban Nightscapes
Title | Urban Nightscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Chatterton |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780415283458 |
Explores how urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an increasingly standardised experience.
Urban Nightscapes
Title | Urban Nightscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Chatterton |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0415283450 |
Explores how urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an increasingly standardised experience.
Urban Nightscapes
Title | Urban Nightscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Leipertz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Baton Rouge (La.) in art |
ISBN |
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Shanghai Nightscapes
Title | Shanghai Nightscapes PDF eBook |
Author | James Farrer |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2015-08-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022626291X |
The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city’s image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife culture that first arose in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a revival since the 1980s. Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasures—the dancing, drinking, and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century. The book begins by examining the history of the jazz-age dance scenes that arose in the ballrooms and nightclubs of Shanghai’s foreign settlements. During its heyday in the 1930s, Shanghai was known worldwide for its jazz cabarets that fused Chinese and Western cultures. The 1990s have seen the proliferation of a drinking, music, and sexual culture collectively constructed to create new contact zones between the local and tourist populations. Today’s Shanghai night scenes are simultaneously spaces of inequality and friction, where men and women from many different walks of life compete for status and attention, and spaces of sociability, in which intercultural communities are formed. Shanghai Nightscapes highlights the continuities in the city’s nightlife across a turbulent century, as well as the importance of the multicultural agents of nightlife in shaping cosmopolitan urban culture in China’s greatest global city. To listen to an audio diary of a night out in Shanghai with Farrer and Field, click here: http://n.pr/1VsIKAw.
Key Concepts in Urban Studies
Title | Key Concepts in Urban Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Gottdiener |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2005-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 184860050X |
The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension. Key Concepts in Urban Studies: • Clearly and concisely explains the basic ideas in the interdisciplinary field of urban studies • Offers concise discussions of concepts ranging from community, neighbourhood, and the city to globalization, the New Urbanism, feminine space, and urban problems • Constitutes a re-examination of the key ideas in the field • Is illustrated throughout with international examples • Provides an essential reference guide for all students and teachers across the urban disciplines within sociology, political science, planning and geography.
Urban Social Geography
Title | Urban Social Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Knox |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 731 |
Release | 2014-09-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1317903250 |
The 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging writing style and clear presentation of previous editions. Examining urban social geography from a theoretical and historical perspective, it also explores how it has developed into the modern day. Taking account of recent critical work, whilst simultaneously presenting well established approaches to the subject, it ensures students are well-informed about all the issues. The result is a topical book that is clear and accessible for students
The Blackwell City Reader
Title | The Blackwell City Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Bridge |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2010-03-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1405189835 |
Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City