The city as an entertainment machine
By: edited by Terry Nichols Clark
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780739124222
Subjects: Social aspects; Urban Sociology; Recreation; Growth; Cities and towns
Description: "The City as an Entertainment Machine details the impacts of opera, used bookstores, brew pubs, bicycle events, Starbucks' coffee shops, gay residents, and other factors on changes in jobs, population, inventions, and more. It is the first study to assemble and analyze such amenities for national samples of cities (and counties). It interprets these processes by showing how they add new insights from economics, sociology, political science, public policy, and geography. Considerable evidence is presented about how consumption, amenities, and culture drive urban policy by encouraging people to move to or from different cities and regions." -- Book Jacket.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The city as an entertainment machine. Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Boston [Mass.] :  Elsevier/JAI, 2004.