Neighborhood patterns of Netflix rentals
January 9, 2010 at 1:31 pm | Posted in amenities, consumption, geography, NYT, personality, scenes, what to read | 1 CommentThe New York Times has an excellent interactive feature on the distribution of 2009 rentals of particular films across neighborhoods, for New York, Chicago, Boston, D.C., Los Angeles, Atlanta, and a few other cities. For example, in the Hyde Park zip code (site of the University of Chicago), the most rented film in 2009 was Slumdog Millionaire. Yet in 3 of the South Side zip codes that surround it, the most rented film was Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys. MadMen Season 1 made the top 50 in many of the zip codes in Manhattan and in those sections of Brooklyn nearest Manhattan; it was virtually absent in the rest of the metropolitan area. Relationship to Terry Clark’s amenity-based scenes indexes? To the neighborhood distribution of personality types? Long live the spatial sociology of consumption….
Work on scenes goes international
February 18, 2009 at 11:46 am | Posted in conference, scenes | Leave a commentWork by Terry Nichols Clark and colleagues on scenes is going international! “Scenes” are specific elements of urban or neighborhood life that encompass physical structures such as libraries, shopping malls, and theaters; demographics such as race, class, gender, and education; and activities such as attending a concert. Clark is moderating a panel at this year’s Urban Affairs Association meetings on Saturday, March 7, 2009 in Chicago featuring scholars from around the world who will describe new developments in this fascinating field of research.
Session 107 Neighborhood Cultural Scenes: How Do They Work? What Are Their Impacts? (Colloquy Session)
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
1 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Saturday, 8:45 AM–10:10 AM, Gold Coast (3rd Floor)
Moderator: Terry Clark (University of Chicago)
- Stephen Sawyer (University of Paris)
- Clemente Navarro (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
- Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon)
For more on this conference, seee http://www.udel.edu/uaa/annual_meeting/index.html.
Check out the blog http://www.tnc-newsletter.blogspot.com/ for more information on scenes.
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