Metropolitics

The new spaces of consumption

Andrea Mubi Brighenti — 2012-05-30T04:55:00Z

Recent retail spaces are giving a new shape to our everyday environment. Kärrholm proposes new concepts to better understand these changes and how they affect our practices, for example by syncing our lives with the "rhythm of shopping." Brief introduction to the discipline of "architectural territorology."
Retail spaces in Western cities have changed dramatically during the last half-century, both quantitatively and qualitatively, shaping new relations with the rest of the city space, and

- Reviews / architecture, consumption, urban planning, retail, retail areas

The Paradoxes of Urban Authenticity

Andrea Mubi Brighenti — 2010-11-25T11:43:04Z

Diversity is becoming a moot point as consumerism replaces authenticity.
In this well written, engaging and enlightening book, Sharon Zukin describes a series of profound ongoing urban transformations that are increasingly leading from a city of production to a city of consumption. Zukin illuminates a crucial tension between urban villages and the corporate city at the heart of many contemporary cities. Faithful to her analysis of the role of the symbolic economy and its interweaving with

- Reviews / authenticity, gentrification, consumption, United States