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"In The Overlooked Americans, public policy expert Elizabeth Currid-Halkett breaks through stereotypes about rural America. She traces how small towns are doing as well as, or better than, cities by many measures. She also shows how rural and urban Americans share core values, from opposing racism and upholding environmentalism to believing in democracy. When we focus too heavily on the far-right fringe, we overlook the millions of rural Americans who are content with their lives"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition: Uncreative Destruction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. ART, CULTURE, AND NEW YORK CITY -- Chapter 2. HOW IT ALL BEGAN: From the Rise of the Factory to the Rise of Bling -- Chapter 3. BECOMING CREATIVE -- Chapter 4. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF CREATIVITY -- Chapter 5. THE ECONOMICS OF A DANCE FLOOR -- Chapter 6. CREATING BUZZ, SELLING COOL -- Chapter 7, THE RISE OF GLOBAL TASTEMAKERS: What It All Means for the Policymakers -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Twenty-first- Century "Leisure" Class -- 2 Conspicuous Consumption in the Twenty-first Century -- 3 Ballet Slippers and Yale Tuition: Inconspicuous Consumption and the New Elites -- 4 Motherhood as Conspicuous Leisure in the Twenty-first Century -- 5 Conspicuous Production -- 6 Landscapes of Consumption -- 7 "To Get Rich Is Glorious"? The State of Consumption and Class in America -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

Many scholars have studied the role of human capital and its social networks in order to understand uneven economic development. The cultural industries have become a focal point in this line of inquiry. In this paper we study the linkages across cultural industry hubs, with particular focus on the role of 'star' human capital networks in the establishment of connectivity and dominance by a few particular cities. To date, no one has used a technique that directly connects individuals across space and empirically follows the social networks of human capital across major economic hubs. We use a unique dataset, Getty Images photographs, and undertake social network analysis to study the social networks and human capital movement within the cultural industries. We collected caption information on over 600 000 photographs, 6754 individuals, 12 777 industry social events, and 187 locations. We analyzed these photographic data to determine whether empirical social connections could tell us something meaningful about cultural industry human capital mobility and its impact on the places in which it locates. Our results empirically reaffirm preexisting knowledge of cultural hubs, but we go farther by articulating the connectivity between these places and identifying the social relations and human capital that appear to correlate with their competitive advantage.

In sieben ausführlichen Kapiteln geht die promovierte Soziologin und Stadtplanerin darauf ein, welche verschiedenen Arten von Konsum es gibt und sie zeigt auf, wie und warum welche Art des Konsums gewählt wird und welche Aus- und Rückwirkungen das auf die Gesellschaft hat. Rezension (ekz): Die promovierte Soziologin und Stadtplanerin E. Currid-Halkett stellt fest, dass sich in den letzten Jahren eine neue kulturelle Elite gebildet hat, die sich durch "bewussten Konsum" bzw. betonten Konsumverzicht vom Rest der Gesellschaft abzuheben versucht. Es geht diesem Teil der Gesellschaft dabei um die richtige Entscheidung, nicht um die günstigste oder teuerste. Die Autorin zeigt auf, wie und warum welche Art des Konsums gewählt wird und welche Aus- und Rückwirkungen, dies sogar bis zur Spaltung, das auf die Gesellschaft hat. Auch wenn sich die Schilderungen auf die USA beziehen, bringt diese Bestandsaufnahme dennoch unbequeme Ergebnisse hervor

Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Foundational City -- The Networked City -- The Imperial City -- The Industrial City -- The Rational City -- The Global City -- The Celebrity City -- The Megacity -- The Instant City -- The Transitional City -- The Creative City -- The Green City -- The Intelligent City -- Glossary -- Resources -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments