City as an Entertainment Machine

The City as an Entertainment Machine details the impacts of opera used bookstores brew pubs bicycle events Starbucks' coffee shops gay residents and other factors on changes in jobs population inventions and more. It is the first study to assemble and analyze such amenities for national samples of cities (and counties). It interprets these processes by showing how they add new insights from economics sociology political science public policy and geography. Considerable evidence is presented about how consumption amenities and culture drive urban policy by encouraging people to move to or from different cities and regions.