John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen
years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry …

This chapter discusses the'consumption'of place and the role of the visual and landscape
within consumption. Two further points are noted. First, it is shown that place is not an …

This paper examines the creation of the city of York as a tourism destination. It is argued that
changes to the process of capital accumulation in advanced industrial societies have led to …

This article reflects on the contributions of the late John Urry to sociology and to its spatial
turn especially by developing the new mobilities paradigm. The proposition of this …

In 1988, shortly after taking up a position in Oxford, I became involved in a research project
concerning the fate of the Rover car plant in that city. Oxford, particularly for outsiders, is …

There is no consumption of space without a corresponding and prior production of space.
Recently much attention has been paid to the latter, and this chapter will summarize this …

Recent media and political events illustrate some links between consumption and
production. The author explores these links through the concept of commodity chains. This …

The Chicago School's latter day followers bequeathed to urban researchers an empiricist
and ecological quagmire in which substantive theory nearly drowned. With the help of …

The book uses examples from private and public domain to illustrate how the man-made
environment constrains or facilitates social interaction. The first part, Private spaces, begins …

The divorce between workplace and living place concomitant with industrial capitalism is
widely recognized as of immense significance. Work on neighborhood activism and the …