Selling Places
City as Cultural Capital, Past and Present
Published on 31. December 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-0-08-041384-6 (ISBN)
Description
Places, particularly cities, often strive to "sell" themselves to encourage inward investment. In doing so, the "managers" of these places seek to manipulate the interwoven cultural and historical attributes of their localities to create attractive images, ambiences and lifestyles. This is a contentious process involving a fierce battle between alternative cultural sensibilities and historical visions. Much of the existing literature on place marketing either provides a practical handbook of how-to-do-it, or an economic analysis of this new facet of urban capitalism. "Selling Places" focuses more explicitly on the cultural-historical context of what is being sold. Thus aims to enrich the economic picture whilst drawing upon newer arguments about the complex politics of cultural and historical representation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-08-041384-6 (9780080413846)
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Content
Culture, history, capital - a critical introduction to selling places, C. Philo and G. Kearns; historical geographies of urban life and modem consumption, N. Thrift and P. Glennie; the city as spectacle - Paris and the bicentenary of the French Revolution, G. Kearns; trading history, reclaiming the past - the Crystal Palace as icon, M. Billings; revisioning place - de- and re-constructing the image of the industrial city, B. Holcomb; the city as commodity - the contested spaces of urban development, M. Goodwin; place marketing - a local authority perspective, A.D. Fretter; place marketing, competitive places and the construction of hegemony in Britain, D. Sadler; John Wayne meets Donald Trump - the Lower East Side as wild wild west, L. Reid and N. Smith; local hero! an examination of the role of the regional entrepreneur in the regeneration of Britain's regions, M. Lowe; architecture as advertising - constructing the image of redevelopment, D. Crilley; one place, two stones - two interpretations of Spitalfields in the debate over its redevelopment, R. Woodward; "tackintosh" - Glasgow's supplementary gloss, E. Laurier.