Urry John. Consuming places

Routledge, 1995. — 266 p. — ISBN 0-203-20295-3This book could not have been produced without the enormous stimulation of many colleagues at Lancaster University, particularly over the past ten
to fifteen years. Partly this stimulation has been centred within various formal groups and centres, including the Lancaster Regionalism Group, the Centre for the Study of Cultural Values, the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and the Faculty of Social Sciences. But it has also resulted from the tremendous range of more informal discussions that have occurred in and around the Lancaster Sociology Department. Such discussions in cafés, bars, common rooms and pubs have helped to concretise an immensely fruitful research culture and to have made the Department an unusually creative kind of place. This book is about some other makings of place.