Introducing commercial spaces -- The industry and the city: knowledge practices as commercial experiments -- Mobility, market research and commercial aesthetics -- The commodity rhythms of urban space -- Fabulating commercial spaces: mediation, texts, and perception -- Perceiving urban change in...

Using a variety of print advertisements, this exciting and provocative study explores how the consumer is created in terms of sex, race and class. Essential reading for all those interested in issues of consumption, citizenship and gender