Fantasy City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22370915 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Hannigan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosf026 |
| OpenAlex | W4251448735 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
“Fantasy City” refers to a new urban form located at the intersection of leisure, consumption, tourism, and real estate development. In Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), Canadian sociologist John Hannigan points to six defining features: fantasy cities are characteristically themo‐centric (scripted), aggressively branded, active day and night, modular (mixing a standard array of retail and entertainment components), solipsistic (isolated physically and economically from the neighborhoods that surround them), and postmodern (in their reliance on simulation and spectacle). This set of phenomena is empirically manifested in an infrastructure of themed restaurants, nightclubs, shopping malls, multiplex cinemas, virtual reality arcades, casino‐hotels, book and record megastores, sports stadiums and arenas, and other urban entertainment destinations. While the only urban centers that currently qualify as full‐scale fantasy cities are Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida, most cities today have some commercial neighborhoods and developments that display these characteristics to a greater or lesser extent. Furthermore, fantasy city development has spread aggressively beyond the borders of North America, with large‐scale projects currently operating or under construction in such countries as Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |