Culture and the City: Creativity, Tourism, Leisure
Author:   Deborah Stevenson ,  Amie Matthews (Western Sydney University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138798373


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   23 June 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Deborah Stevenson ,  Amie Matthews (Western Sydney University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9781138798373


ISBN 10:   1138798371
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   23 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Culture, Policy and the City: Tracing its Dimensions Deborah Stevenson and Amie Matthews 2. University students and the ‘creative city’ Kate Shaw and Ruth Fincher 3. Cultural policy in Shanghai: the politics of caution in the global city Tina Schilbach 4. Putting leisure to work: city image and representations of nightlife Nathaniel Bavinton 5. Dressed up and sipping rum: local activities within the touristic space of Trinidad, Cuba Maki Tanaka 6. Arts festivals, urban tourism and cultural policy Bernadette Quinn 7. Situating Leisure in the Cultural Economy Deborah Stevenson and Amie Matthews

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Deborah Stevenson is Research Professor at the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. She has published extensively on cities and urban cultures – with a particular emphasis on urban cultural policy and place and identity – and her work has been translated into several languages, including Chinese. Amie Matthews is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Amie has conducted extensive research into the backpacking culture, focusing in particular on travel as a contemporary rite of passage, youth travel and cosmopolitanism, and the tourist imaginary.

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