Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: James Merron Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 116 ISBN: 9783838337098
Описание
The importance of hospitality spaces within urban regeneration processes has remained largely overlooked in current urban discourse; and this is in spite of the dramatic physical transformation of cities over the past fifteen years - alongside recorded increases of hospitality spaces which are central. This study examines key themes underpinning UK urban regeneration policies over the past decade – urbanisation, gentrification, post-modern consumption, place promotion, and sanitisation; and considers practical implications derived from the presence and provision of hospitality spaces alongside these themes - in terms of their capacity to contribute to the establishment of urban spatial quarters of differentiation and of standardisation specifically. Two urban quarters of Manchester [UK] provide the cases for this ethnographic research study, whose presence of contrasting typologies of hospitality spaces could be said to have respectively exemplified these...