Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-256) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Consumption controversies -- Everything you ever wanted to know about consumption, (but were afraid to ask Baudrillard) -- Consumption and the city, modern and postmodern -- Seduced and repressed : collective consumption revisited / with Michael G. Bradford -- The meaning of lifestyle -- Minimal utopia.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city.
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Title
Consumer society and the postmodern city.
International Standard Book Number
041520514X
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bürger, Christa, 1935-Postmoderne
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Capitalism.
City and town life-- Social aspects.
Consumer behavior.
Consumption (Economics)-- Social aspects.
Capitalisme.
Consommateurs-- Comportement.
Société de consommation-- Aspect social.
Vie urbaine-- Aspect social.
Capitalism.
Capitalisme.
City and town life-- Social aspects.
Consommateurs.
Consommation-- Aspect social.
Consumer behavior.
Consumptiemaatschappij.
Consumption (Economics)-- Social aspects.
Konsumgesellschaft
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.