Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-271) and index.

Introduction : making urban nightscapes

Part I. Understanding nightlife processes and spaces : producing, regulating and consuming urban nightscapes

Producing nightlife: corporatisation, branding and market segmentation in the urban entertainment economy

Regulating nightlife : profit, fun and (dis)order

Consuming nightlife : youth cultural identities, transitions and lifestyle divisions

Part II. Urban nightlife stories : experiencing mainstream, residual and alternative spaces

Pleasure, profit and youth in the corporate playground : branding and gentrification in mainstream nightlife

Selling nightlife in studentland

Sexing the mainstream : young women and gay cultures in the night

Residual youth nightlife : community, tradition and social exclusion

'You've gotta fight for your right to party' : alternative nightlife on the margins

Urban nightscape visions : beyond the corporate nightlife machine