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Urban nightscapes : youth cultures, pleasure spaces and corporate power / Paul Chatterton and Robert Hollands

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical geographies ; 18Publisher: London : Routledge, 2003Description: xiv, 285 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415283469
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.235
Contents:
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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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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