Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City

Postmodern City Concept

The widespread concept of the ''postmodern city'' is frequently linked to the decline of traditional manufacturing industries and a corresponding wane of white working-class culture.

In place of these appear flexible working practices, a diversified workforce, and a greater emphasis on consumption, leisure, and tourism.

Study of Leeds

Illustrated by an interdisciplinary study of Leeds, a typical postmodern city, this volume examines how such cities have reinvented themselves - commercially, politically and spatially - over the past two decades.

The work addresses issues like cultural policy, city-centre development, sport, leisure and identity, and explores different urban processes in relation to changing configuration of class, gender and ethnicity in the postmodern city.