Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City - Couverture souple

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Synopsis

The widespread concept of the 'postmodern city' is frequently linked to the decline of traditional manufacturing industries and a corresponding wane of white working-class culture. In place of these appear flexible working practices, a diversified workforce, and a greater emphasis on consumption, leisure, and tourism. Illustrated by an interdisciplinary study of Leeds, a typical postmodern city, this volume examines how such cities have reinvented themselves - commercially, politically and spatially - over the past two decades. The work addresses issues like cultural policy, city-centre development, sport, leisure and identity, and explores different urban processes in relation to changing configuration of class, gender and ethnicity in the postmodern city.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Peter Bramham is Reader in Leisure Studies and Professor Stephen Wagg is Reader in Sport and Society at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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9780754672746: Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0754672743 ISBN 13 :  9780754672746
Editeur : Routledge, 2009
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