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Urban leisure: Edge city and new leisure periphery
| Author: |
Evans, G. |
| Date: |
1998 |
| Periodical: |
Leisure Management: Issues and Applications |
| Abstract: |
The central question about the out-of-town leisure-consumption phenomenon is whether it is its form that dictates the nature of urban living, or if it is the post-modern city that in fact dictates how the pleasure periphery has developed. The answer appears to be somewhere in between. Vast sheds that serve (some but not all) people from more than one city or conurbation (or country) demonstrate that urbanism has already become an amorphous landscape in which mobility allows anything to happen anywhere. Paradoxically, while the city itself has decentralized, the pleasure periphery has in all senses become ever more concentrated. |
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