Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present.
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Abstract
Culture, History, Capital - a critical introduction to selling places (C. Philo, G. Kearns). Historical geographies of urban life and modem consumption (N. Thrift, 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, 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).