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Title: Consumption and the Post-Industrial City

Consumption and the Post-Industrial City

by Frank Eckardt (Volume editor) Dieter Hassenpflug (Volume editor)
©2003 Edited Collection IV, 284 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: The European City in Transition, Volume 1

Summary

The consequences of the industrial transition with regard to its social, political and architectural effects are the issue of this book. Today, the basis of urban growth lies more in the hands of those who consume and therefore organize their social potential. As the consumption city is not simply one new industry that comes next, the mixture of different life styles is the necessary matrix for revitalization of urban life. Difference and diversity are challenging manifold the management of this transition, wherefore no blue print for the urban regeneration can be produced. Consumption valorizes the cultural capital of every place and transmits it to the market. Drawing on the unique history of the place, the diversification of the post-industrial city requires a specific approach addressing the local in its characteristic potentials and threats.

Details

Pages
IV, 284
Year
2003
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631394694
Language
English
Keywords
Europa Nachindustrielle Gesellschaft Stadt Kongress Stadtsoziologie Weimar (2002)
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2003. IV, 284 pp.,1 tab.

Biographical notes

Frank Eckardt (Volume editor) Dieter Hassenpflug (Volume editor)

The Editors: Frank Eckardt is working as an urban sociologist at the European Urban Studies programme of the Bauhaus University Weimar, where he is the local organizer of the European Cities in Transition Conference Series. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel in political science. Dieter Hassenpflug is Professor for Sociology and Social History of the City at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He studied economics, sociology and philosophy at the Free University Berlin and Kassel University. He was a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, the Berlin College of Economics, Kassel University and at the University of Frankfurt. He is Spiritus Rector of the postgraduate European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and director of the EuroConferences Series «The European City in Transition» at Weimar 2001-2003.

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