City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living.  It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important.  They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Brabazon, Tara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:GeoJournal Library, 108
Temas:
Human geography.
Architecture.
Sociology, Urban.
Human Geography.
Cities, Countries, Regions.
Urban Sociology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction:  Sliced Cities: Tara Brabazon
  • Section One - Disconnection: 1: Glasgow the brand:  Whose story is it anyway?: Mhairi Lennon
  • 2: My state had a mining boom and all I got was this lousy train-line: Leanne McRae
  • 3: Swan Valley Sideways:  Economic development through taste and tourism in Western Australia: Tara Brabazon
  • 4: The Atrium:  a convergence of education, leisure and consumption: Danny Hagan
  • 5: Culture of car parks or car parking cultures?: Zuzana Blazeckova
  • 6: Sticky Brighton:  Dog Excrement in Brighton and Hove public areas: Ana Kvalheim
  • 7: Hacking the City:  Disability and access in cities made of software: David Cake and Mike Kent
  • 8: Security and the City:  The CHOGM Lockdown: Leanne McRae
  • 9: Luanda:  Running on the wrong track towards global acceptance: Boniswa Vaz Contreires
  • Fado: Faracy Grouse
  • Section Two - Intervention: 10: When Bohemia becomes a business:  City Lights, Columbus Avenue and the future of San Francisco: Tara Brabazon
  • 11: Working the crowds:  street performances in public spaces: Andrew Carlin
  • 12: Third tier rave towns:  The orbit in Morley: Nick Dunn
  • 13: Beats by the Bay:  Sixties San Francisco music and the development of a Contemporary Tourism Industry: Nadine Caouette
  • 14: Brighton Sound?  Cities, music and distinctiveness: Abigail Edwards
  • 15: Makkah Al-Mukaaramah:  A Second Tier City for Religious Tourism: Saeed Al Amoudy
  • 16: Unseen Napa: QR codes as virtual portals: Mick Winter
  • 17: Osaka in and out of the Nation:  Neoliberal Spatial Gestures for the Globally Competitive City-Region: Joel Matthews
  • 18: Brand Wellington:  When city imaging is GLAM'ed: Tara Brabazon
  • Conclusion:  Imaging injustice: Tara Brabazon.

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