Urban nightscapes : youth cultures, pleasure spaces and corporate power

Chatterton, Paul

Urban nightscapes : youth cultures, pleasure spaces and corporate power / Paul Chatterton and Robert Hollands - xiv, 285 pages : illustrations - Critical geographies, 18 .

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

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Young adults--Social conditions
City and town life
Standardization--Social aspects

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