Fashioning the city: Cultures of consumption in contemporary urban spaces

Geoforum

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 287-308

  Crewe, Louise ^a   Beaverstock, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption; Cultural production; Embeddedness; Fashion retailing; The city

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; RENEWAL POLICY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032148050     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7185(98)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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