Consumption and the Postmodern City
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Studies
- Vol. 35 (5-6), 841-864
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0042098984583
Abstract
Probes into the consumer culture in the postmodern city through a survey of a population that recently moved into refurbished homes in downtown Manchester, England. Attraction to the middle class of culturally based urban regeneration; Cultural consumption and lifestyle; Sociology of contemporary cultural changeKeywords
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