Review Issue: Urban Consumption
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Release | : 1998 |
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Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Peter Wesley Newton |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2011-11-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0643096876 |
Growth in human consumption is the transcending problem of our times. In the short span of 50 years, high income societies have shifted from an era when a ‘simple life’ was the norm to one where material consumption is pervasive. Consumption has become the engine for post-industrial societies. The liveability of cities in these societies is directly attributable to the consumption of resources – indirectly via their built environments and directly by their residents. This pattern of development is not sustainable. Nor is it equitable. Urban Consumption explores the prospect for winding back current levels of household consumption in high income societies, covering such critical areas as energy, water, food, housing and travel.
Author | : Garry D. Brewer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Urbanization |
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Author | : Mark Jayne |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780415327343 |
This text investigates the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption. It uses case studies and illustrations from North America, Europe and Asia.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
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ISBN | : 9264204814 |
This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas. Specifically, it documents the characteristics of these partnerships and the factors that can hinder as well as enable rural-urban co-operation.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2012-04-27 |
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ISBN | : 926417415X |
This Urban Policy Review of Korea assesses Korea’s approach to sustainable urban development as expressed in its recent urban policy reform and national green growth agenda. The government has responded to the economic, environmental and social ...
Author | : Peter M. Mieszkowski |
Publisher | : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801821844 |
Author | : Isabelle Michele Muller |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Energy consumption |
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Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2011-05-02 |
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ISBN | : 926409783X |
This comprehensive review of urban policy in Poland looks at the urban system and the challenges it faces, national policies for urban development in Poland, and adapting governance for a national urban policy agenda.
Author | : Elizabeth Currid-Halkett |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400884691 |
How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption—like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the Serial podcast. They use their purchasing power to hire nannies and housekeepers, to cultivate their children’s growth, and to practice yoga and Pilates. In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society “the aspirational class” and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class reproduces wealth and upward mobility, deepening the ever-wider class divide. Exploring the rise of the aspirational class, Currid-Halkett considers how much has changed since the 1899 publication of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class. In that inflammatory classic, which coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption,” Veblen described upper-class frivolities: men who used walking sticks for show, and women who bought silver flatware despite the effectiveness of cheaper aluminum utensils. Now, Currid-Halkett argues, the power of material goods as symbols of social position has diminished due to their accessibility. As a result, the aspirational class has altered its consumer habits away from overt materialism to more subtle expenditures that reveal status and knowledge. And these transformations influence how we all make choices. With a rich narrative and extensive interviews and research, The Sum of Small Things illustrates how cultural capital leads to lifestyle shifts and what this forecasts, not just for the aspirational class but for everyone.