Public and Private Consumption and the City

Young Peoples? Perceptions of Housing Tenure: A Case Study in the Socialization of Tenure Prejudice

“…Bauman's work on the nature of poverty in Housing, Theory and Society consumer societies has been widely discussed elsewhere (Bauman, 1987;1998;Clarke and Bradford, 1998). For the purposes of this article we shall only brie y outline his thesis as it relates to contemporary debates about social exclusion and housing tenure.…”

Urban segregation and local retail environments. Evidence from Mexico City

“…3 Even though the issue of consumption has been widely discussed in the field of urban geography (Castells, 1977;Clarke & Bradford, 1998;Preteceille, 1986;Saunders, 1984), the debate focused on the differences between collective vs private consumption and the role of the State on providing collective consumption goods. The relevance of defining whether a good is collectivized, private owned but collectively consumed or both privately owned and consumed is that the debate has contributed to understand the importance of levels of accessibility, as well as and the role of different agents (State, retailers) in producing the 'means of consumption' available to urban dwellers.…”

The Infrastructural Limits to Growth: Rethinking the Urban Growth Machine in Times of Fiscal Crisis

“…The political economy of infrastructural fragmentation — especially decisions about who has access to urban infrastructure networks and who is excluded from them — has ceased being the clear product of local socio‐political struggles. Rather, outcomes are now much more dependent on economic agents who make decisions based on ‘bottom‐line’ cost‐benefit analyses and technical questions of customer ‘excludability’ (Clark and Bradford, 1998; Pagano and Perry, 2008).…”