SOCC26H3 Lecture : Week 12 Lecture Note
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Last week - spectacular consumption t rying to replicate las vegas and disney theme parks: this notion of spectacular consumption also covered cultural attractions art galleries, opera houses spectacular consumption. If you look where money goes, the bulk of money that flows from federal/provincial government to cultural attractions basically goes to a handful of large cultural organizations and attractions (i. e. the art gallery of ontario, royal ontario museum, Coc, national ballet of canada, stratford festival, shaw festival amongst them the big cultural attractions got billions of dollars from government) If you look at buildings that exist in cities, by in large they tend to be concentrated in downtown in the urban core. In the advertising world, they talk about brand extension = brand that they identify with and extend it: so tate liverpool was a way of brand extension. Liebeskind to design a new front to the museum on bloor street that became nicknamed the crystal.
