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Selling places : the city as cultural capital, past and present

Title
Selling places : the city as cultural capital, past and present / edited by Gerry Kearns and Chris Philo.
Publication
Oxford [England] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Kearns, Gerard.
  • Philo, Chris.
Description
x, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Policy, planning, and critical theory
Uniform Title
Policy, planning, and critical theory.
Subject
  • Cities and towns
  • Civic improvement
  • Municipal government > Public relations
  • Urban renewal
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-308) and index.
Contents
  • 1. Culture, History, Capital: A Critical Introduction to the Selling of Places / Chris Philo and Gerry Kearns -- 2. Historical Geographies of Urban Life and Modern Consumption / Nigel Thrift and Paul Glennie -- 3. The City as Spectacle: Paris and the Bicentenary of the French Revolution / Gerry Kearns -- 4. Trading History, Reclaiming the Past: The Crystal Palace as Icon / Mark Billinge -- 5. Revisioning Place: De- and Re-constructing the Image of the Industrial City / Briavel Holcomb -- 6. The City as Commodity: The Contested Spaces of Urban Development / Mark Goodwin -- 7. Place Marketing: A Local Authority Perspective / Andrew David Fretter -- 8. Place-marketing, Competitive Places and the Construction of Hegemony in Britain in the 1980s / David Sadler -- 9. John Wayne Meets Donald Trump: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West / Laura Reid and Neil Smith -- 10. Local Hero! An Examination of the Role of the Regional Entrepreneur in the Regeneration of Britain's Regions / Michelle Lowe.
  • 11. Architecture as Advertising: Constructing the Image of Redevelopment / Darrel Crilley -- 12. One Place, Two Stories: Two Interpretations of Spitalfields in the Debate Over its Redevelopment / Rachel Woodward -- 13. 'Tackintosh': Glasgow's Supplementary Gloss / Eric Laurier.
ISBN
0080413854 (hardcover) :
LCCN
93007681
OCLC
  • 27812964
  • ocm27812964
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries