Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0742540626 ISBN 13: 9780742540620

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2006

Riassunto

City leaders now confront a global competition for economic investment, and urban elites are casting about for strategies that promise to secure a share of this future of global economic growth. However, many of these strategies are largely symbolic in nature. City leaders, for example, compete for the Olympics so they can broadcast spectacular urban vistas to global television audiences. Officials pour public funds into tourist amenities to cultivate an image of vitality and renewal. But how are the local politics of urban redevelopment intertwined with the global politics of circulating vital urban images? Urban Communication brings together scholars from communication, cultural studies, and urban sociology to explore the symbolic dimensions of contemporary city-building, drawing on case studies from around the world.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Timothy A. Gibson is assistant professor of communication at George Mason University. Mark Lowes is associate professor of communication at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0742540626
• ISBN 13: 9780742540620
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 241
• Redattore: Gibson Timothy A., Lowes Mark
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile