ISBN:
0415283450
,
0415283469
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 285 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Critical geographies 18
Parallel Title:
Print version Urban Nightscapes : Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power
Keywords:
Nightclubs
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Entertainment events
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Young adults Social conditions
;
Bars (Drinking establishments)
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Standardization Social aspects
;
City and town life
;
Stadt
;
Freizeit
;
Jugendkultur
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Urban Nightscapes; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: making urban nightscapes; Part I: Understanding nightlife processes and spaces: producing, regulating and consuming urban nightscapes; 2. Producing nightlife: corporatisation, branding and market segmentation in the urban entertainment economy; 3. Regulating nightlife: profit, fun and (dis)order; 4. Consuming nightlife: youth cultural identities, transitions and lifestyle divisions
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Urban nightlife stories: experiencing mainstream, residual and alternative spaces5. Pleasure, profit and youth in the corporate playground: branding and gentrification in mainstream nightlife; 6. Selling nightlife in studentland; 7. Sexing the mainstream: young women and gay cultures in the night; 8. Residual youth nightlife: community, tradition and social exclusion; 9. 'You've gotta fight for your right to party': alternative nightlife on the margins; 10. Urban nightscape visions: beyond the corporate nightlife machin; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-271) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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